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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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Bromley Town Centre Park Trail – Stop 1/3 (Moat)
To continue the Heritage Trail, carry on walking down the Carriage Drive. Continue reading
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Bromley Town Centre Park Trail – Stop 1/2 (The Fernery)
To continue the Heritage Trail, retrace your footsteps back to the carriage drive and follow it around the Moat. Continue reading
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Bromley Town Centre Park Trail – Stop 1/1 (St Blaises Well)
To continue the Heritage Trail, follow the little path (on the right hand side of the Carriage Drive) and on your right there is a rocky cliff – this is the fernery. Continue reading
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Threat to our Art Deco cinema – public meeting on 11th July
The public meeting was well-supported and very constructive, but the committee it elected folded a few weeks later. There is still a group on Facebook to continue in attempts to save the building, but only the facade is in the … Continue reading
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Churchill Theatre – what is the future? How is it affected by the terms of the land’s Endowment?
Freehold to the Theatre and Library building is on the open market. Previously the idea of demolition and construction of housing on the site has been proposed, but all of this could breach the conditions that the land was acquired with. Continue reading
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How we celebrated Broomtime 2024
Bromley is named after the little yellow broom flower – it grew in profusion in the fields – and the town held a festival every year. This year, we will celebrate it, in the Glades! Continue reading
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Saved Demolition! Thanks for your help!
Write now and save this iconic cupola from demolition THIS SATURDAY (4th May 2024) Continue reading
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Our Chair receives the Mayor’s Award for 2024
We are very proud that our Chair, Tony Banfield, was one of ten recipients of the Mayor’s award (for contributions in the voluntary sector). Tony has been pivotal in saving our historical buildings and green space in the town centre, … Continue reading
Last fragment of the Medieval Moat
This feature is stop 3 on the Bromley Town Centre Park Trail, here. The original moat of the Bishops Palace – the homes of important people, such as Bishops, needed moats in the lawless years of the 1100s ‘Anarchy’ – … Continue reading
12 Good Reasons: Objections to John Lewis/Waitrose Development
WHAT WE ARE OBJECTING TO: Buildings on this scale and height are out of character with the rest of the town centre. Heritage Assets will be harmed. A Precedent will be set for further tall buildings. The Local Infrastructure will be overloaded. There is not enough Affordable Housing. Continue reading
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