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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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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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Future Buildings in Bromley Town – How High? – The Supplementary Planning Document (SPD)
The Council is currently consulting on the Bromley Town Centre Supplementary Planning Document (SPD) which will govern how large and where future buildings will be, in the town centre. It will provide better control of the development (that affects the … Continue reading
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Borough Wide Urban Design – What should new buildings look like? Not like this
The council is consulting on how new buildings should appear, by creating an Urban Planning Guide for architects. Most of this document is good, there are only… the illustrations. These are nearly all cheap, ugly, and very undesirable. Including these … Continue reading
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Add your voice! keep the Civic Centre blocks of flats at 4 floors
And, there are FIVE applications, which we’d like you to object to (you could copy-and-paste the same wording): 22/02984/CDETND – Joseph Lancaster one floor extension with existing window style 22/02986/CDETND – Joseph Lancaster with new window style to that floor … Continue reading
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Residents spoke – 86% said NO to more Tower Blocks! Analysis of the responses to the 2020 Supplementary Planning Document (SPD) consultation
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East Street No. 41, former Southern Suburban Co-operative Society
Though this striking Arts & Crafts building is now several shops, originally it was a large Co-Op store, with a meeting hall above, built in 1888. Bromley Little Theatre is housed in two linked buildings at the back – they … Continue reading
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Some archive pictures for the Jubilee!
This year we are celebrating the Platinum Jubilee of the Queen. To mark the occasion, we have chosen an assortment of memories and local pictures from our archive. * Silver Jubilee marked 25 years in 1977, * Golden Jubilee marked … Continue reading
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