Join us! Help promote & protect our Heritage
HISTORIC BUILDINGS
OLD PHOTOS
Browse our old photos, inSave 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...Follow us on Twitter
BCS tags
- 66-70 High Street (6)
- 2019 Local Plan Site (5)
- AAP (10)
- Art Deco (7)
- Arts And Crafts Movement (12)
- BCS events (6)
- Bromley Council (7)
- Bromley history (8)
- Bromley Palace (6)
- Broom Time (3)
- C19 Folly (3)
- Campaign (15)
- Church House Gardens (5)
- Churchill Theatre (3)
- development (6)
- Former Magistrates Court (3)
- Green space (9)
- guided-walk (7)
- heritage (11)
- Heritage Buildings (49)
- HG Wells (6)
- High Street (19)
- High Street (North) (18)
- LBB-Bromley-North-Trail (20)
- Local Plan (10)
- Lost-Heritage (4)
- Market Square (14)
- Martins Hill (3)
- Old Photos (8)
- palace-park (17)
- Palace Park (8)
- planning (16)
- Protected View (4)
- Pulhamite (4)
- Queen's Gardens (4)
- Self-Guided Heritage Walk (15)
- Site 10 (3)
- Site G (12)
- SPD (10)
- SPD Consultation (11)
- St Blaises Well (3)
- Supplementary Planning Document (3)
- Supplementary Planning Document Consultation (3)
- town-centre-park-trail (12)
- Town Hall (4)
Category Archives: Archive
Tour of the Old Town Halls, post-restoration by CastleForge
Tour of the post-converted and repaired Old Town Hall on 10th February. Continue reading
Posted in Archive
Tagged guided-walk, Heritage Buildings, Town Hall, Town Hall Extension
Comments Off on Tour of the Old Town Halls, post-restoration by CastleForge
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
Posted in Archive
Tagged SPD, SPD Consultation
Comments Off on Filling in the Survey Monkey on the SPD consultation
Thanks to your help – Maplin tower block rejected by one vote!
We are grateful to everyone who took the time to object to this development. The Development and Control Committee voted 9 to 8 to reject the proposal for the ugly dominating tower over the former Maplins shop. Losing the application … Continue reading
Posted in Archive
Tagged 66-70 High Street
Comments Off on Thanks to your help – Maplin tower block rejected by one vote!
EMAIL NOW – Or this will be approved next week:
Bromley council’s planning officers have recommended that our Development and control committee should approve a 12-storey high rise to be built over the former Maplin’s shop on the corner of Ethelbert Road. This means that it’s almost certain to go … Continue reading
Posted in Archive
Tagged 66-70 High Street
Comments Off on EMAIL NOW – Or this will be approved next week:
SAVE our Neo-Georgian Shop (AGAIN)
The developers who own the shop, that was formerly Maplins, have amended and re-submitted their planning application – please object! Here’s the link to the application (so click the Comments tab, then add a comment, chosing ‘Objection’ as the reason) … Continue reading
Archive: Come to our Treasure Trail on Friday!
Wondering what to do with the children this half term? Get them involved in heritage on the Family Heritage Treasure Trail on Friday 21st February from 10am to 4pm. It’s meant for youngsters accompanied by grown ups – but there’s nothing to stop grown ups having a … Continue reading
Posted in Archive
Comments Off on Archive: Come to our Treasure Trail on Friday!
Archive: 2012, June: Jonathan Clay talk at AGM
Thursday 6th June 2013: BCS AGM. The society’s Annual General Meeting took place at the Parish Rooms, Church Street, Bromley. After our formal business our guest speaker Jonathan Clay spoke eloquently about the campaign by Gravesend Civic Society against disastrous … Continue reading
Posted in Archive
Tagged Jonathan Clay
Comments Off on Archive: 2012, June: Jonathan Clay talk at AGM
Archive: 2012, July: Town Centre Festival
Sunday 29th July 2012: BCS taking part in Bromley Town Centre Festival. We will be taking part in this important event in Bromley High Street, 11am—5pm. There will be lots of events celebrating local Arts, Sports, Leisure and Heritage. We … Continue reading
Posted in Archive
Comments Off on Archive: 2012, July: Town Centre Festival
Archive: 2012, March: Heritage Trail Launched
31st March 2012: Heritage Trail launched As part of the council’s Easter events an heritage trail around Bromley North Village was officially launched in the Market Square. Councillors Morgan & Manning were in attendance. Two separate walks were led by … Continue reading
Posted in Archive
Comments Off on Archive: 2012, March: Heritage Trail Launched
Archive: 2013, September: West Side of High Street
Site G Community G Meeting Site G Leaflet Community G Street Party: 22nd September 2013 BCS was pleased to be invited to the street party organised by the community of people seriously impacted by council plans. Bob Ogley was a … Continue reading