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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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Bromley Town Centre Park Trail – Stop 6/1 (Martins Hill and War Memorial)
To continue the Heritage Trail: (1) longer route – go down the path lined by lime trees along the top of the park until Deadmans steps, down to the road, are reached. (2) shorter route – retrace steps to the gates, turn left down the road to the High Street. Turn left up the High Street, then right into Walters Yard. Go left and right to the front of the supermarket, then left to the far corner of the car park. The gap here takes you to the K2 phone box. Continue reading
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Bromley Town Centre Park Trail – Stop 4/4 (The Church House)
To resume the Heritage Trail, go down the Carriage Drive to the gates, turn left and go through the gates on the other side of the road to the war memorial on Martins Hill. Continue reading
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Bromley Town Centre Park Trail – Stop 4/3 (The Bowie Balustrade)
To continue the Heritage Trail, continue uphill and on the other side of the trees, on the level ground at the top, is a Carriage Drive in a loop around the flower bed. Continue reading
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Glassmill Pond
This mill pond is one of the stops in our heritage and biodiversity trail , the entry is here. There were a number of mills recorded in the Doomsday Book along the River Ravensbourne in Bromley, but the only one that survived … Continue reading
Bromley Town Centre Park Trail – Stop 4/2 (Terraces and Grand Designs)
To continue the Heritage Trail, turn left along the edge of the fish pond and along the causeway between that and the sandpit. Go down the left hand side of the sandpit and straight on to the gate. In front, and to the right, is Glassmill Pond. Continue reading
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Bromley Town Centre Park Trail – Stop 4/1 (The Fishpond)
To continue the Heritage Trail, turn left along the railings at the side of the water, walking to the bottom of some steps. Continue reading
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Bromley Town Centre Park Trail – Stop 3/1 (Library Gardens of Neelgharies House)
To continue the Heritage Trail, carry on straight on through the park to the 3rd table-style bench, and there is a path down the hill to your right. Follow this down to the Fishpond. Continue reading
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Waitrose’s Bromley Cliff Face proposals approved.
The proposals were approved. One of the major problems we had with the campaign was the approx 100 supportive comments lodged on the proposals after the first consultation. Most of these were because the authors thought that this proposal would … Continue reading
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The Ha-ha! – Grade II Listed
The Ha-ha features as a stop in our Bromley Town Centre Park Trail, here. The Ha-ha remained a fashionable feature of a stately home’s grounds for many years, because it also had a practical value. Instead of some ugly fence … Continue reading
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Bromley Town Centre Park Trail – Stop 1/4 (Cascade & Ha-Ha)
To continue the Heritage Trail, take a few more paces down the Carriage Drive to reach an elegant porch. Continue reading
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