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01Bromley, London

Listed building consent drawings for Bromley's listed houses and gardens

Bromley is a borough of houses: 68.6% of households live in one, and a listed house among its 412 list entries often comes with grounds the listing may reach. Our chartered architectural technologists (MCIAT) survey the building and its curtilage, then draw each change against what exists, so the case officer sees what is kept before reading a word of the statement.

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    02The brief

    The Heritage Impact Assessment rule in Bromley's design guide

    Bromley's heritage policy sits in the Bromley Local Plan, adopted in 2019, and the Urban Design Guide SPD adds a procedural step: Heritage Impact Assessment required for applications in a conservation area or in the setting of a listed building.

    A Heritage Impact Assessment is therefore part of the package whenever a conservation area or a listed neighbour is involved. We hold no further verified local test, so national policy sets the standard: Proposals affecting heritage assets need an assessment of significance (including setting) proportionate to the asset's importance. Every sheet we draw labels what is original and what the proposal touches, so the assessment can point at it.

    Pencil resting on a dimensioned technical drawing beside a scale rule
    Red-brick mansion blocks and shopfronts on a street corner
    Photograph: Tom McCarten

    03The record

    Local figures for Bromley

    Figures with their unit, period and source
    MeasureValuePeriodSource
    Applications in conservation areas or listed building settings need a Heritage Impact Assessment; listed works need LBC.Heritage Impact Assessment requiredNo periodbromley.gov.uk, Urban Design Guide SPD (adopted July 2023), section 2, before para 2.25
    NPPF Aug 2026, policy HE5(1)Proposals affecting heritage assets need an assessment of significance (including setting) proportionate to the asset's importanceNo periodgov.uk
    Class E, para E.1(g)Garden buildings within the curtilage of a listed building are not permitted developmentNo periodlegislation.gov.uk
    Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 s9(1), s9(4)Works without consent: up to 6 months' imprisonment or a fine on summary conviction; up to 2 years or a fine on indictmentNo periodlegislation.gov.uk
    Listed building entries412 list entries (Historic England, within the LPA boundary)No periodplanning.data.gov.uk
    Grade I listed entries8 list entriesNo periodplanning.data.gov.uk
    Grade II* listed entries23 list entriesNo periodplanning.data.gov.uk
    Grade II listed entries380 list entriesNo periodplanning.data.gov.uk
    Heritage at Risk entries25 Heritage at Risk Register entries within the LPA boundary (Historic England)No periodplanning.data.gov.uk
    Conservation areas47 named conservation areas published by the councilNo periodplanning.data.gov.uk
    Article 4 directions108 Article 4 directions published by the councilNo periodplanning.data.gov.uk
    Households living in a house68.6 % of households living in a house or bungalow (detached, semi-detached or terraced)Census 2021nomisweb.co.uk
    Listed building consent decisions (PS2)14 listed building consent decisions (to alter or extend)2025 Q2 to 2026 Q1 (1 Apr 2025 to 31 Mar 2026)assets.publishing.service.gov.uk
    Listed building consents granted (PS2)92.9 % granted2025 Q2 to 2026 Q1 (1 Apr 2025 to 31 Mar 2026)assets.publishing.service.gov.uk

    A blank value means the figure has not been published, not that there are none. Check your own address with the council.

    Bromley8 neighbouring councils
    Councils bordering Bromley

    04The streets

    Householder applications by street in Bromley

    Streets in Bromley with the most householder applications, and the share approved
    StreetApplicationsApproved
    Petts Wood Road3981%
    Hayes Way3667%
    Crescent Drive3472%
    Village Way3281%
    Pickhurst Rise3187%
    Hayes Chase3083%
    Charterhouse Road2788%
    Farnaby Road2788%
    Kings Hall Road2591%
    St Paul's Wood Hill2588%
    Eden Park Avenue2477%
    Kent House Road2490%
    Broxbourne Road2391%
    Clock House Road2386%
    Elmstead Lane2381%

    Counts of householder applications by street; no individual applications are shown. Streets with fewer than five applications are left out.

    GLA Planning London Datahub, householder applications

    05The drawing

    The listed building consent routeA, What the council weighs: Proposals affecting heritage assets need an assessment of significance (including setting) proportionate to the asset's importance. B, The weight given to conservation: Substantial weight to the conservation of designated heritage assets. C, Bromley: consents decided: 14 listed building consent decisions (to alter or extend). D, Bromley: consents granted: 92.9 % granted. E, Works without consent: Works without consent: up to 6 months' imprisonment or a fine on summary conviction; up to 2 years or a fine on indictmentSurvey and significanceHeritage statementDrawings and scheduleCouncil decisionABCDE

    The listed building consent route

    How works to a listed building are consented, from the first survey to the decision.

    A What the council weighs
    Proposals affecting heritage assets need an assessment of significance (including setting) proportionate to the asset's importance
    B The weight given to conservation
    Substantial weight to the conservation of designated heritage assets
    C Bromley: consents decided
    14 listed building consent decisions (to alter or extend)
    D Bromley: consents granted
    92.9 % granted
    E Works without consent
    Works without consent: up to 6 months' imprisonment or a fine on summary conviction; up to 2 years or a fine on indictment
    The listed house in its terrace3D
    Scroll the page: the model turns with it.

    06The detail

    Detached houses, long gardens and the curtilage question

    A suburban listed house tends to come with outbuildings, boundary walls and a garden laid out with it, and the listing can reach some of those. Garden buildings within the curtilage of a listed building are not permitted development, which is why a studio or garden room at the bottom of a Bromley plot can need an application before anything is ordered.

    On site we measure the main house, then walk the grounds and record walls, gate piers, old stables and earlier extensions. Drawing the whole plot at survey stage settles the curtilage question once, and the later sheets rest on it.

    Bromley's heritage layers

    Of the 412 entries, 8 are Grade I and 23 Grade II*, and the remaining 380 are Grade II. Around them the council publishes 47 conservation areas and 108 Article 4 directions, so a listed house can answer to more than one control. Each is a separate application with its own test, and we draw them from a single survey.

    25 entries are on the Heritage at Risk Register, a reminder that some owners here are repairing as well as altering. A repair schedule drawn on the same sheets as the alterations makes both easier to read.

    What the council's recent decisions tell you

    In its latest four quarters Bromley decided 14 applications to alter or extend a listed building and granted 92.9%. With so few cases, treat the figure as volume. Across the borough 37.6% of 502 decided householder appeals were allowed, though those cover householder cases in general.

    Fee, offence and the next application

    Listed building consent has no council fee. Doing the work without it is an offence, and the penalty is set nationally. Works without consent: up to 6 months' imprisonment or a fine on summary conviction; up to 2 years or a fine on indictment.

    A loft storey on a listed house usually needs planning permission too, and our mansard roof drawings for Bromley cover that route. A lower floor sits with the basement conversion drawings for Bromley. For a neighbouring borough's rules, compare Croydon, and the national overview shows how the routes fit together.

    Planning sheet for a single-storey rear extension: proposed ground floor plan and rear elevation, with the Property Architecture title block
    Sample drawing. Proposed plan and rear elevation from a planning application set, sheet 03 at 1:50.

    07The papers

    What the drawings rest on

    Upper floors of a large yellow-brick Victorian house in London with chimney potsFlat conversions & change of use
    Photograph: Lorenc Memaga
    Building regulations section through a rear extension, with the roof, floor, wall and foundation build-ups labelled
    Sample drawing. Section A-A with the build-ups building control checks, sheet 07 at 1:50.

    08Correspondence

    Questions

    When is a Heritage Impact Assessment needed in Bromley?

    The council's design guide asks for one with applications in a conservation area or in the setting of a listed building. We read the list entry and the boundary maps in the free constraints check and tell you whether yours is required.

    My listed house has a large garden. Does the listing cover the whole plot?

    The listing can extend to structures within the curtilage, such as walls, stables and outbuildings, depending on their age and their link to the house. We survey the grounds with the building and mark what we think is covered.

    Can a conservation area and a listing apply to the same Bromley house?

    Yes. With 47 conservation areas in the borough it is common, and each control is applied separately. Our single survey feeds both sets of drawings so they agree.

    Rows of brick terraced houses and gardens on a residential street

    68.6%

    of households living in a house or bungalow (detached, semi-detached or terraced)

    Households living in a house, Bromley, Census 2021. Source: nomisweb.co.uk

    Photograph: Altaf Shah

    09Further reading

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