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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: Building works at Churchill Theatre – grey painted concrete instead of Lakeland tiles?
Just to let everybody know about the plans with the lakeland slate tiles that are falling off the cladding on Churchill Theatre:
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High Street No. 208-214 former Tunnel Shoes – Heritage Buildings
The former Tunnel Shoes occupy the original 1902 premises of Boots the Chemists. The Art Nouveau wrought iron work in front of the first floor windows is typical of boots in this period and similar work can also be seen … Continue reading
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Tagged 208-214 High Street, Boots the Chemist, Heritage Buildings, High Street (North), Rawes School
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Market Square The Old New Townhall – Heritage Buildings
Neo-Gothic, ‘Elizabethan’ style, brick new ‘Town Hall’ built by the new Lord of the Manor in the 1863 at his own cost Continue reading
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Bromley Town Local Plan And AAP (as of 2019)
Bromley Town Plans: Local and Area Action Table of Local Plan sites, adopted 2018, and their housing allocations. Table of the 2010 Area Action Plan’s Opportunity Sites: Update to AAP Sites as at March 2019: The AAP was drawn up … Continue reading
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High Street No. 123, Marks and Spencers – Heritage Building Profile
“Wright Brothers’ attractive bow-windowed shop was taken over by a High Street chain store, who a few years ago took great trouble to reproduce in every detail
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High Street No. 72-80, Bromley House Parade – Heritage Building Profile
Bromley House Parade of shops was built about 1930 when this part of the High Street was developed. The rows of shops on this side of the High Street replaced a line of fine villas that overlooked the Ravensbourne valley. … Continue reading
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Tagged 72-80 High Street, Ethelbert Road, Heritage Buildings, High Street, Neo Gothic
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Half Term fun! Do our new Family Heritage Trail !
Have the most amazing time this half term! Do our new family Heritage Treasure Trail around our historic buildings in central Bromley. No booking required, find us in the Local Studies Centre on the 2nd floor of Bromley Central Library … Continue reading
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The Author H.G. Wells in Bromley
The Author, HG Wells, grew up in the upstairs of a shop on Bromley High Street. He is most famous for his prescience books The War Of The Worlds and The Time Machine. His auto-biographical writings capture a time of rapid social change in the market town. Continue reading
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Arts And Crafts Movement in Bromley – Ernest Newton
The renowned architect Ernest Newton has built one of his best works in Bromley: The Royal Bell. Continue reading
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High Street No. 160, Victoria Chambers, now Primark’s Annex – Heritage Building Profile
This fine building is from the 1890s and built in the Arts & Crafts style with its characteristic Dutch influence. The blue plaque identifies it as the birthplace of the famous author HG Wells. Continue reading
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Tagged Arts And Crafts Movement, Heritage Buildings, HG Wells, High Street, LBB-Bromley-North-Trail, Market Square
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