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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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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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Tagged Broom Time, Edward Strong, HG Wells, Hill House, Martins Hill, River Ravensbourne, War Memorial, William Starling
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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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Tagged AAP, Protected View, SHAW
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2010 Area Action Plan Site K – Westmoreland Place
Approved in 2012 for complex with hotel, multiplex cinema and 200 flats. Continue reading
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2010 Area Action Plan Site J – Bromley South Station
Facilities upgraded 2012. Plans for underground platforms and 8 high rise blocks above. Continue reading
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2010 Area Action Plan Site G – High Street west side
No Planning Application. consultations on high rise blocks down the west side of the high street, including demolition of Ethelbert Close. Continue reading
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Tagged AAP, Ethelbert Close, Site G
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2010 Area Action Plan Site F – Bromley Palace park lands
Half of the centre portion of the old palace grounds (civic centre) sold, for housing, in October 2019. Continue reading
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2010 Area Action Plan Site E – Pavillion Leisure Centre
Change the Pavillion leisure centre into a shopping mall. Hopefully abandoned. Continue reading
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2010 Area Action Plan Site C – Old Town Halls Tweedy Road
Approved in 2015 for a hotel scheme and 50 flats in South Street car park. Approved, and variation for the town hall (not the flats) submitted August 2018. Continue reading
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2010 Area Action Plan Site B – Adjoining C17 Colleges
Approved despite harm to the 17th Century widows and spinsters colleges. Continue reading
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