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Tony Banfield, Chairman. 8 Pixfield Court, Bromley BR2 0DG Tel: (020) 8464 3181 E-mail: chair@bromleycivicsociety.org.uk
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15th May 2012: Queen visits Queen’s Garden. During her visit to Bromley, as part of her Diamond Jubilee celebrations the Queen & Duke of Edinburgh visited a fashion show held in Queen’s Garden. This public open space was given to the people of the town in 1897 for their use, in celebration Queen Victoria’s own Diamond Jubilee. 16th April 2012: Site M: Queen’s Gardens new planning application submitted. Capital Shopping Centres plc, who own The Glades presented plans which are only slightly different from those rejected by LBB. This will still build on part of the gardens. We continue to oppose this development, along with the Friends of Bromley Town Parks & Gardens. More….. 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 Marc Timlin (BCS). More….. 6th March 2012: Site K: Widmore Road plans accepted by council. Despite many objections from local people who will be overlooked by this development Cathedral’s plans for the massive development of this site were accepted by L.B.Bromley Development Control Committee. 2nd March 2012: Application for registration as a Town Green. Over 50 letters were received from the local public in support of our application for Town Green status of the threatened area of Queen’s Gardens. These have been handed in to the council and we now await this application to be progressed. More.….. 14th February 2012: Site M: Queen’s Gardens development rejected. L.B.Bromley Development Control Committee narrowly rejected Capital Shopping Centres plc plans to build on part of Queen’s Gardens on a number of grounds including that no development was approved in the council’s own Area Action Plan. We suspect this issue has not yet gone away and will continue to oppose along with many other local people. 10th February 2012: Application for registration as a Town Green. BCS & Friends of Bromley Town Parks have submitted to the council an application for registration of threatened Queen’s Garden as a Town Green. This is part of our campaign against this unwelcome development. Decision scheduled to be made on Tuesday 14th February at a planning meeting at Bromley Civic Centre. 25th January 2012: Site L– Plans for ex-DHSS building, Bromley South. A small public exhibition of Telereal Trillium’s proposal to develop the former DHSS site. This is a mixed development to provide a hotel, apartments and retail and will involve a 11-storey tower block at the junction Masons Hill/Westmoreland Road. BCS are concerned at impact of this tower block on protected views of the Keston ridge. 19th January 2012: Conservationists join fight against restaurants proposal. In an article in today’s Bromley Times (page 2) The Open Spaces Society has expressed its opposition to the planned development in Queen’s Gardens. Their representative, Mark Green said: “If the land is sold and restaurants and café’s built here the land will cease to be open space available for the public to enjoy. The development would be a private, not public, amenity.” The Open Spaces Society is our oldest national conservation body. 11th January 2012: Plans will destroy public open space. A letter by Tony Banfield, detailing BCS objections to the Queen’s Garden development (Site M), was printed in today’s News Shopper as their ’Star Letter’. 11th January 2012: Big screen dream part of £80m town development. Tony Banfield comments adversely, in today’s News Shopper article on Cathedral Group’s 24 storey tower development in Westmoreland Road (Site K). Also known as Bromley South Central. In same issue a notice of a planning application (ref: 11/03865/FULL1) for this development appears. BCS will be objecting to the extreme height of this development. Further details of this development can be found on the Ravensbourne Valley Preservation Society website by clicking HERE. 5th January 2012: RVPS objects to Queen’s Garden development. The Ravensbourne Valley Preservation Society has decided to formally object to this planning application (11/03466). More details by clicking HERE. December 2011: Queen’s Garden Planning Application Published. L.B.Bromley have published details of this controversial development. Members of the public are urged to send their objections to L.B. Bromley Planning Department. November 2011: Site M: Queen’s Garden BCS working with Friends of Bromley Town Parks & Gardens appeal to other local Friends groups for support in opposing the planned development, part on public open space. Click here to see report. September 2011: Site M: Queen’s Garden The developer (Capital Shopping Centres) releases proposals to build 5 restaurants on the Terrace adjacent to The Pavilion sports centre and extending into parkland area at the southern side of Queen’s Garden. This would involve the loss of a significant part of this public open space currently owned by the L.B.Bromley. A planning application is expected later in 2011 with construction planned in 2012. Our society, working with the Friends of Bromley Town Parks & Gardens, are against the loss of any part of this Urban Open Space. More details to follow. July 2011: Site K: Westmoreland Road Car Park The developer (Cathedral Group) outlined very sketchy plans of their proposed development in a container outside the Churchill Theatre. Our society have raised severe concerns about these plans particularly the height of the building. More details on this development are expressed in out July 2011 Bulletin.
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