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* 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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Summary/Notes on the SPD – The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
Some of the content of the Supplementary Planning Document is to be praised, and some notice has been taken of the feedback in the 2020 consultation, except for the rejection of high-rise tower blocks (see our post, where 86% of … Continue reading
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Filling in the Survey Monkey on the SPD consultation
The Supplementary Planning Document consultation has an option to fill in your opinion on each section via Survey Monkey. It’s not an especially good survey, as you can’t see what you are commenting on – you have to have the … Continue reading
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Architectural Elements of Heritage Bromley
The 2023 Supplementary Planning Document for Bromley Town states the NPG aim: “well-designed places are based on a sound understanding of the surrounding context, influence their context positively and are responsive to local history, culture and heritage. Creating a positive … Continue reading
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The Old Bishops Palace
There is a stop on the Bromley Town Centre trail about the Old Bishops Palace (where you can view it from the Eastern Lawn), see here. 1000 years of Bishops of Rochester in Bromley The Bishops of Rochester lived at … Continue reading
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Pulhamite – Pulham ‘stone’
The Pulhamite listed structures were installed by the new Lord of the Manor, Coles-Child, as part of his restoration and modernisation of the old Bishop’s Palace. The English Heritage listing is “It is a good and little-altered example of the artificial rock work (Pulhamite) produced in the mid-C19 by James Pulham’s firm, and it sits within a little-altered mid-C19 landscape setting, at the end of a lake and amidst trees.”.
Pulhams had invented an early form of concrete, which looks quite convincingly like rocks – but was much easier to install the shapes and forms that customer’s wanted. It became very fashionable – Sundridge Park paid the for more expensive installation, a gorge, that was top of the range as it included real fossils. Buckinham Palace has several, and Ramsgate installed a convincing cliff at Madeira Walk.
The basic structure was constructed from brickwork, and then the artisan would put a rendering of ‘pulhamite’ over the top, putting in rock-like layers and shapes as he plastered the render on – this was skilled job to make it look like genuine rock outcrops. Continue reading
The Pulhamite Fernery
The fernery is stop 2 in our Bromley Palace Park trail, see here. The Fernery is one of the four Grade 2 listed features in the park. When Coles-Child bought the title of ‘Lord Of The Manor’ of Bromley from … Continue reading
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We need a Masterplan, not a free-for-all of speculative Tower Blocks
Those parts of the document that most need to be changed Continue reading
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SPD – What’s happening in my part of the Town?
Find out what building heights and what is planned for each area of Bromley Town and site. Continue reading
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SPD – Guidence Note 11: Tall buildings
In the 2020 consultation on the SPD (supplementary planning document) 86% of responses about building heights rejected more high-rises (defined as over 6 storeys) (see here). New policies in the London Plan enable our council to set limits on the … Continue reading
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Churchill Quarter – feedback that it’s too high in the SPD (Supplementary Planning Document) consultation
It is drafted as if to pave the way for the kind of proposals that we saw last summer (see before and after photos). It fails to take into account the
impact on Library Gardens and the Conservation Area. Paragraph 7.21, for example, says that ‘…building heights should be proportionate to that of the Churchill Theatre..’ * This suggests you could have an 11 storey block of flats towering over Library Gardens Continue reading
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