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from being dominated by tower blocks: Look here and email our ward councillors about:
* High rises in the Local Plan
* housing and a hotel on the civic centre (old palace)
and
* 16+ high rises from the draft Master Plan down the Lower High Street
* and there's others...
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Archive: 2011 July: Site K: Westmoreland Road Car Park
July 2011: Site K: Westmoreland Road Car Park The developer (Cathedral Group) outlined very sketchy plans of their proposed development in a container outside the Churchill Theatre. Our society have raised severe concerns about these plans particularly the height of … Continue reading
Archive: 2013, Aug: 111 High Street, Bromley, shopfront
28th August 2013 BCS opposes the planning application, reference 13/02630, to fit a new unsympathetic shop front to this historic building.
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The (not) Protected View from Queens Mead and S2 /Churchill Quarter Developments
The view of the town centre – or rather the trees – from Queens Mead and the railway line, is protected. Two developments will ruin this view : the S2 application to put 16 storeys in place of the former … Continue reading
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Archive: Beckenham Library – outline approved despite Conservation Area
Like the sale of Civic Centre land the Council’s proposed demolition of the Beckenham Library for a block of flats is another example of the Council flouting its own heritage protection policies in a misguided attempt to meet housing targets. … Continue reading
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Robert Dyas – a surprise Bromley resident
It has been good to welcome a branch of Robert Dyas now open in Bromley High Street and even more so since it has been discovered by staff at the Local Studies Library that Robert Dyas lived for the last … Continue reading
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Archive: 2019 Christmas Lights In Bromley
This year, some of our heritage buildings have been flood lit on High Street, and it is well worth taking a trip in to look around them. The installation is by BID/Your Bromley, and Workmen have been busy installing the … Continue reading
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The Glades
Bromley built the Glades in the 1980s, demolishing houses, the non-conformist church, and shops to make way for it. They sold part of Queen Gardens so that the remanent was blocked off from Market Square. The new bypass curved round … Continue reading
High Street No. 147-149 & 151-153 Demolished – The White Hart Inn
This much lamented ancient Inn dated from the medieval era and had been rebuilt as the commercial hub in the 1830s. Replaced by a space wasting concrete cuboid. Continue reading
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Tagged Brutalist, Lost-Heritage, White Hart Inn
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Church House and Library Gardens
These two parks are really one; it is just a historical note that Library Gardens is the level area behind the Churchill Theatre; you then go down the slope to the integrated Church House Gardens. Note that, part of this … Continue reading
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Tagged Abel Moysey, Carnegie Library, Church House Gardens, Churchill Theatre, Emily Dowling, George Sparkes, Green space, Library Gardens, Mr J Stenning
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Write and Stop This Tower Block – we want our neo-Georgian shop to stay
S2 Estates have put in an application for a 16 storey tower on the site of the former Maplins store. Their supporting statement said that they felt it would help locals find the High Street. This 1932 neo-Georgian shop is … Continue reading
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Tagged 66-70 High Street
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