As there are no other high rise buildings apart from Sherman House and the high rise flats just past Burnt Ash I don’t see how anyone can think that this monstrosity would fit in the Bromley North area.Bromley North is mainly a Victorian residential district with most houses having a very small frontage which means that most park in the road , so if there are another 200 potential cars in the vicinity , where are they going to park?
We attended the meeting at the Chirchill theatre and were told that most new residents would not need a car as the public transport services were so convenient, this is a niave if not misleading statement as realistically most families have at least one car.
I have a fear that our wonderful,historic town will,turn into,another Lewisham and anybody who,has visited there recently will probably agree that it looks like Legoland.
I have been in contact with Colin Smith who agrees with me so hopefully there us someone on our side.
I also seem to,remember from the first , (not so,extreme )plans submitted a few years ago,that concerns were aired about the impact on local utilities with the water board saying that the area couldn’t cope with the additional sites.
PVictorian houses
John Edwards
January 25, 2018
Completely agree with the caveat about Lewisham. To walk down that road with high rise to left and right with the sky blocked out is like some dark depressing future I thought would never come. But as bad as that is, the new Lewisham high rise are not 23 storeys. I attended the developer’s “consultation” event and I thought a 21 storey building bad enough but now it’s like they’ve taken the objections on board and stuck two fingers up at the moaners, like me. Rather cynically I suspect that the “consultation” was more of an information gathering exercise to make sure they had plenty of advance warning of objections before the planning application went in.
As there are no other high rise buildings apart from Sherman House and the high rise flats just past Burnt Ash I don’t see how anyone can think that this monstrosity would fit in the Bromley North area.Bromley North is mainly a Victorian residential district with most houses having a very small frontage which means that most park in the road , so if there are another 200 potential cars in the vicinity , where are they going to park?
We attended the meeting at the Chirchill theatre and were told that most new residents would not need a car as the public transport services were so convenient, this is a niave if not misleading statement as realistically most families have at least one car.
I have a fear that our wonderful,historic town will,turn into,another Lewisham and anybody who,has visited there recently will probably agree that it looks like Legoland.
I have been in contact with Colin Smith who agrees with me so hopefully there us someone on our side.
I also seem to,remember from the first , (not so,extreme )plans submitted a few years ago,that concerns were aired about the impact on local utilities with the water board saying that the area couldn’t cope with the additional sites.
PVictorian houses
Completely agree with the caveat about Lewisham. To walk down that road with high rise to left and right with the sky blocked out is like some dark depressing future I thought would never come. But as bad as that is, the new Lewisham high rise are not 23 storeys. I attended the developer’s “consultation” event and I thought a 21 storey building bad enough but now it’s like they’ve taken the objections on board and stuck two fingers up at the moaners, like me. Rather cynically I suspect that the “consultation” was more of an information gathering exercise to make sure they had plenty of advance warning of objections before the planning application went in.