Old Town Hall 30 Tweedy Road Bromley BR1 3FE

15/00140/FULL3Full App (Hybrid Op Dev + Change of Use)Approved

Full

Approved on 8 September 2015

Council decision: Permission Subject to Legal AgreementPlanning committee

Approximate site (title boundary)

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Proposal

Application for planning permission and listed building consent to enable partial demolition of the Bromley Town Hall building and replacement with extensions no greater than 3 storeys high to facilitate a change of use from Office (Class B1) to 94 bedroom hotel use (Class C1) to include hotel restaurant, conference, wedding and multi-functional space in addition to 2 independent restaurants (Class A3) fronting Widmore Road together with re-configuration of the existing access ramp on Widmore Road and provision of pickup/drop off in Tweedy Road and South Street and Planning Permission for the erection of a 5-storey residential apartment building (Class C3) containing 53 units (18 x 1bed, 34 x 2-bed, 1 x 3 bed), with basement parking for 26 cars and 118 cycle parking spaces upon the neighbouring South Street Car Park, together with associated landscaping and public realm improvements.

Received: 13 January 2015
Decision level: Planning committee
Council: London Borough of Bromley
Ward: Bromley Town
Agent: NTR Planning Ltd

ReceivedReceived13 Jan
ValidatedValidated2 Mar
Consult.Consultation7 Apr
TargetTarget Date27 Apr
DecidedDecided8 Sep

Decided in 190 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at Old Town Hall 30 Tweedy Road Bromley BR1 3FE. Bromley has handled 942 applications of this type. This one was decided in 238 days, 26 weeks longer than Bromley's typical decision time. The site is in the Bromley Town Centre conservation area, with 3 listed buildings nearby. There have been 15 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 167 applications across Bromley Town. We hold 2,801 applications in total for the BR1 postcode area.

73% of amendment applications at London Borough of Bromley were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode: BR1 3FE
Application type: Full App (Hybrid Op Dev + Change of Use)
Scale / size: Large
Number of dwellings: 53

Planning application dates

Date validated: 2 March 2015
Consultation expiry: 7 September 2015
Consultation start: 17 March 2015
Consultation end: 7 April 2015
Neighbour consultation start: 24 August 2015
Neighbour consultation end: 7 September 2015
Last date for comments: 7 September 2015
Target decision date: 27 April 2015
Committee meeting: 8 September 2015
Decision issued: 6 November 2015
Permission expires: 6 November 2018

Applicant and agent

Agent: NTR Planning Ltd
Agent address: Clareville House 26-27 Oxendon Street London SW1Y 4EL

Planning decision

Statutory period: 56 days

Publicity

Last advertised: 25 March 2015
Advertisement expiry: 15 April 2015

Additional information

Planning Portal ID: PP-03871560
Documents: 265
Constraints: 12

Site constraints

Checking the site

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Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

Conservation area: Bromley Town Centre
Listed building: Grade II: Bromley Town HallOn this site · +1 more
Heritage at Risk Register: Old Town Hall, Tweedy Road, BromleyPart of the site
Brownfield land register: Opportunity Site C, Old Town Hall, 30 Tweedy Road, BR1 3FERegister site at or near this address
Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

Not published by this council, so not checked: Article 4 directions. Ask the council if these matter.

Possibly incomplete for this council: tree preservation orders.

Also checked, none recorded (18)

flood storage areas, green belt, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, registered parks and gardens, registered battlefields, nutrient neutrality catchments, national parks, National Landscapes, SSSIs, Special Areas of Conservation, Special Protection Areas, Ramsar sites, ancient woodland, national nature reserves, local nature reserves and heritage coasts.

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