HISTORIC BUILDINGS
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Save our Town Centre
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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Heritage Buildings of the Upper/North High Street
This is the oldest section of the High Street, and has buildings that survive from the 1700s. The town is very fortunate that there we have a fine collection of Victorian and Arts and Craft era buildings in this part … Continue reading
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Local Plan Sites 4 & 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9.
Sites 4 (Homesdale Gas Holders) and 5 (Bickley Stn sidings) are situated just south of the town centre. 6 is Bromley Gym and park in St Pauls Cray. 7 (Orchards Lodge), 8 (Bassetts Campus) and 9 (Bruce Road Depot) are built. Continue reading
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2019 Local Plan Site 3 – Hill Car Park & Adjacent
Redevelopment of the Hill Car park site. entry in the Local Plan: Site Policy: Development for mixed use including retail (150sqm), cultural facilities, car parking for the public and for residential, and 150 residential units. Proposals will be expected to: … Continue reading
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2019 Local Plan Site 2 – Bromley North Station
The Area around Bromley North Station has been on the plans for redevelopment, for at least 10 years. Each new version increases the number of ‘units’ (housing units, in this case flats) that are expected to fit on the site. … Continue reading
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High Street No. 179-183 William Hill formerly Martins Bank – Heritage Building
Designed by the Arts and Crafts architect Ernest Newton (see our page here). The Martins Bank website provides some more pictures of the interior of the building, with an interesting note on the occasion: “For our Bromley Branch features, we … Continue reading
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Market Square Nos 12-13 Cafe Rouge – Heritage Building
Cafe Rouge occupies the first building displaying the transition from a small market town into a Victorian shopping centre. It was built in 1883 by local draper, Herbert Collings, well known for banishing the old system of credit in favour … Continue reading
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BCS and Parks Heritage Walk No.1 Market Square and North High Street
Market Square shops High Street north of Market Square You can download this walk as a .pdf here. Start at the south side of Market Square, outside Ann Summers. Look at the Primark Extension opposite you: Market Square is the … Continue reading
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Martins Hill, the War Memorial, and the Ravensbourne of Yesteryear
Martins Hill and War Memorial.
In the early years of the railway, the slopes were noted for the perfusion of broom, and made the hillside appear quite yellow from the train. Continue reading
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Arts and Crafts movement – imitation in the Suburbs
Examples where lower-class housing imitates arts and craft details Continue reading
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2010 Area Action Plan Site L – 1 Westmoreland Rd & BCC
11-storey hotel approved in 2013; permission lapsed and acquired for Education, 11-storey school dismissed on appeal. Continue reading
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