As part of this year’s Sci-Fi Bromley event, Bromley Civic Society will give a FREE guided tour of HG Wells’ early life and influences this Saturday 23rd September. Your tour guides will be in Victorian costume and you will see the places and buildings that Bertie knew and wrote about, many of which are still […]
The next Babbacombe Road Residents’ Association meeting will be held at 19:30 on Tuesday 19th September at Bromley Baptist Church in Park Road. The Sherman Road developers will be presenting their proposals and you will have the opportunity to ask them questions. We look forward to seeing you there.
The developers of the Sherman Road site are proposing a 20-storey block of two hundred 1-2 bed apartments. Our own artist’s impressions of the scale of this development look like this: There are many concerns regarding this proposal: The scale of the proposed building is completely out of character for the area which is predominantly […]
Bromley Council’s new development proposal for “Churchill Gardens” (the area behind the High Street shops between Halifax building society and Metro Bank) is open for consultation. There will be a presentation stand in the pedestrian area of the High Street opposite to the entrance to the Churchill Theatre between Thursday 6th and Sat 8th July […]
The letter below was received from the Met. Police Borough Commander, Chief Superintendent Chris Hafford via the local Neighbourhood Watch coordinator. I am writing to you this morning as you are a key stakeholder for us here in Bromley and I wanted to give you prior notice of an important announcement that will be […]
Following on from concerns identified at the AGM in March, the Associations’ spring meeting focused on residents’ parking issues. The committee undertook a mini-survey of possible extra parking places in the area and compiled a list of questions re local policy, residents’ permits, the parking of traders’ vans and other problems. These were all sent […]
While the impact on Site A of Bromley town centre’s loss of Housing Zone status is still uncertain, developers Prime Place are pushing forward with development of the site on the south end of Sherman Road. A report to the LBB Renewal and Recreation Policy Development and Scrutiny Committee on 5th April 2017 (PDF Available) […]
Private developer, RELTA Ltd, has won a High Court judgement against the GLA’s designation of Bromley Town Centre as a “Housing Zone”. Although the full implications of this for Site A are not yet fully clear, the £27 million in GLA grants and loans that were to be made to LBB in order to accelerate […]
The developers of the NHS clinic have appealed against LBB’s refusal to grant planning permission for conversion of the site into private dwellings. The refusal was made on the following grounds: The proposal would represent piecemeal development of the adjoining land leading to a sub-optimal regeneration of the area. By reason of the proposal’s height, […]
Babbacombe Road Residents’ Association Response to the LBB Local Plan Dec 2016 This document outlines various policy contradictions and deficiencies in supporting evidence that appear in LBB’s latest Local Plan draft dated November 2016. The Local Plan should be considered “unjustified” and “unsound” in these respects. While we accept that the Local Plan is not […]
For general information, below we link to the text of the High Court judgement which upheld an appeal by Linden Homes regarding the LBB’s Area Action Plan (AAP). Linden Homes asserted that the Bromley’s AAP was unsound on a number of points, primarily: LBB’s housing targets for the site did not align with national policy […]
The Next BRRA open meeting which will be on Tuesday 1st November 2016 at 19:30. The venue, as usual, is the small hall of Bromley Baptist Church, situated on the corner of Widmore Road and Kentish Way. Our guest speaker for the evening will be Gavin Schuman, General Manager for the Churchill Theatre. Other […]
There will be works in the Babbacombe Road Car-Park from 20th October to remove the rear wall and toilet block. There will be a replacement, low-level fence at the rear of the car-park. Works are expected to continue for 6-8 weeks.
There have been incidents of Babbacombe Road residents having items of personal mail stolen from their properties and these documents used to open multiple fraudulent bank accounts. In some cases victims have had over 15 accounts opened online in their name without their knowledge. The Police have been informed and the Post Office have been […]
Over 34 residents and local stakeholders attended BRRA’s open community meeting about the proposed redevelopment around Bromley North station. A presentation from LBB outlined the issues, opportunities and suggestions for the site and is available here. This was followed by a short presentation from Bromley Civic Society about the site’s heritage and conservation issues. There followed […]
The following images are a selection taken from LBB’s recent stakeholder meeting on the development at Bromley North Station (Site A). The full document is available here: Bromley Site A presentation – 15 june 16 Draft (PDF). Please be reminded that this is NOT a development proposal. It is a study to show the scale of development […]
BRRA are running an open meeting to discuss the Bromley North Station (Site A) development on Monday 25th July at 19:30 at the Baptist Church in Widmore Road. Councillors and Council officers have been invited to answer your questions about the proposed scope of the development and anyone affected is welcome to attend. Please […]
The London Fire Brigade are always offering free home safety checks. Usually for people regarded as having a higher risk of fire in the home, such as: Older people living alone People with mobility, vision or hearing impairments People accessing mental health service users Those liable to intoxication through alcohol and/or drug use Visits shouldn’t last […]
A planning application has been received for the development of the old NHS clinic building near the car-park at Station Road. The LBB planning portal link is: https://searchapplications.bromley.gov.uk/onlineapplications/applicationDetails.do?activeTab=summary&keyVal=O8HOO9BTGAB00 BRRA has objected to the application on the following three grounds: Parking – The application proposed only 1 disabled space for 9 flats and asserted that there […]
If you are having difficulty engaging with the Council over environmental issues then we have had acceptable success using the FixMyStreet.Com website. Residents can make a public notification of anything from fly-tipping and graffiti to broken paving and leaves. These get sent immediately to the relevant LBB department and we normally get a response moderately […]