116 — Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems (SUDS).
How Bromley actually applies 116: who leans on it, where it bites hardest, and how often it's invoked. The policy text is the rule; this is the behaviour.
116 is a published Bromley planning policy. This page records where it appears in the council's published planning decisions.
Cited under: Bromley Local Plan (adopted)
Policy 116 requires developments to incorporate Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems (SUDS) or alternative sustainable approaches to surface water management. This applies to developments in Flood Zones 2, 3a, 3b, and certain areas in Flood Zone 1. Applications must be accompanied by a site-specific Flood Risk Assessment (FRA) for these areas.
Plain-English summary of the adopted policy text below. The full text is the rule; this is the gist.
Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems (SUDS)
Verbatim from the adopted Bromley plan · source document. The council's published plan is the authoritative version.
124 citations in the selected period
Not filled in yet. This will hold how officers actually argue 116 case by case, classified from their decision reports — the classification pass hasn't run. Nothing is paraphrased in its place.
116 appears most often in Chislehurst, Orpington, Farnborough & Crofton. It appears across 1 of 2 officers recorded in this period. The map shows the pattern for the selected period.
This shows the decision reports in which 116 appears. It does not yet claim that the policy caused those outcomes; 2 citations sit outside the approval/refusal split.
Not filled in yet — the classification pass over the citing passages hasn't run. When it has, this shows why 116 was used, whether it supported approval or refusal, and what changed as a result. No conclusion is shown until that classification has been checked.
No Planning Inspectorate appeal decisions on record cite 116. When one lands (the appeals table refreshes each weekday), the dismissed/allowed record appears here — never estimated.
Atlas intelligence summarises patterns and observations from published planning records. Past decisions do not indicate how any future application will be determined. Every application is assessed on its own merits, having regard to the proposal, site, evidence and policies applying at the time. This information is provided for general information only and is not planning, legal, financial or professional advice.