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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...
Category Archives: Blog
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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Tagged Local Plan, planning, SPD, SPD Consultation, Urban Design Guide
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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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Tagged palace-park, y-buildings
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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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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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Object to building these two High Rises – it sets precedent for NINE others
There are 3 proposals in the planning system to build 11 tower blocks (between them) on the west side of the High Street, along the top of the ridge over the Ravensbourne Valley. Though the Churchill Quarter and Maplins sites … Continue reading
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Tagged 2-4 Ringers Road, development, High Rises, Masterplan, Site G
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Thank you for responding!
We have been told that the proposals to spend £1.2m on the B&Q giant green house, and two basket-shaped concrete sculptures, have been dropped! We couldn’t do it without everyone’s help, sharing the news, and writing to object. Thank you!
Let’s NOT spend £1m on a giant greenhouse in the High Street – never mind the two recycled basket funnel sculptures.
The proposal is for the council to spend £1.2million on this ‘Street Clutter’ from money scrimped and saved from other contracts, such as park maintenance. It is being rushed through so they can construct them in June. Our money is … Continue reading
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2020 Draft Open Space Strategy – List of Parks with Actions
These are actions, against specific parks, in the Draft Open Space Strategy here: https://cds.bromley.gov.uk/documents/s50083222/Idverde%20Draft%20OPen%20Space%20Strtaegy.pdf Please excuse any duplicates that have not been spotted; they were repeated in the different strategic-objectives tables. It is expected that many of these will not … Continue reading
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Write to say ‘No’ to the Draft Open Space Strategy
Object to the Draft Open Space Strategy; It aims to cut maintenance even further, and to rank the open space with the aim of selling some. Continue reading
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Tagged Draft Open Space Strategy
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New Town Centre Planning consultation – How to work the commenting and thumbs up
A quick guide to commenting, or giving a comment a thumbs up: The consultation is divided into 12 categories, so to prevent the old blank-page scare, compose what you want to say, and work out which ‘theme’ it fits in, … Continue reading
