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122 — Light Pollution.

How Bromley actually applies 122: who leans on it, where it bites hardest, and how often it's invoked. The policy text is the rule; this is the behaviour.

122 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)

Bromley · 122
Where 122 is quoted — by ward
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21
times cited
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appeal survival
no PINS appeal decisions cite it
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officer reach
50% of officers recorded in this period
Darwin
top hotspot ward
5 citations
What this policy is about

Policy 122 requires new development lighting to be at an appropriate level to minimize impact on amenity, ensuring safe and secure places. This applies to all new developments. The council will resist applications that cause adverse effects on residential amenity, road safety, landscape, or nature conservation through glare or light spillage.

Plain-English summary of the adopted policy text below. The full text is the rule; this is the gist.

The policy — as adopted

Light Pollution

Lighting in new development, including flood lighting, should be at an appropriate level so as to minimise impact on amenity whilst ensuring safe and secure places. Lighting should: i. have no adverse effect on residential amenity through glare or hours of operation, ii. not be visible from the wider area, and iii. have no adverse impact on road safety, landscape or nature conservation. Supporting Text 7.0.58 Light pollution – artificial light which intrudes on areas not intended to be lit – can be a nuisance and a public health issue. From street lighting to floodlighting, a range of measures can reduce problems of glare and light spillage without compromising safety. The NPPF states that, through good design, planning policies and decisions should limit the impact of light pollution on local amenity, intrinsically dark landscapes and nature conservation.

Verbatim from the adopted Bromley plan · source document. The council's published plan is the authoritative version.

How it lands
100% in approvals · 0% in refusals
21 citations in the selected period
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Where it bites
Darwin5
West Wickham2
Farnborough & Crofton2
What cites it — application types
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What it means in practice

Not filled in yet. This will hold how officers actually argue 122 case by case, classified from their decision reports — the classification pass hasn't run. Nothing is paraphrased in its place.

What the published record shows

122 appears most often in Darwin, West Wickham, Farnborough & Crofton. It appears across 1 of 2 officers recorded in this period. The map shows the pattern for the selected period.

Who cites it — case-officer spreadfrom parsed decision notices · click an officer
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Why it is cited — and what follows
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in approvals
21 citations
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in refusals
0 citations

This shows the decision reports in which 122 appears. It does not yet claim that the policy caused those outcomes.

Reason · role · consequence

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Does it hold up? — appeal performance

No Planning Inspectorate appeal decisions on record cite 122. When one lands (the appeals table refreshes each weekday), the dismissed/allowed record appears here — never estimated.

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Citations, officer spread, ward and application-type counts parsed from published Bromley decision notices (high-confidence parses, approvals and refusals), joined to the canonical application record. One citation = one decision citing the policy. See the policy overview for every policy cited.

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.