Bromley Council has submitted a planning application to build a large warehouse and fenced high security compound inside Priory Gardens, a Grade II Registered Historic Park & Garden and Urban Open Space.

WE NEED AS MANY OBJECTIONS AS POSSIBLE. IT WILL TAKE LESS THAN TWO MINUTES
 

HOW TO OBJECT
  Go to the planning portal:

Planning Application Objections Link

  Click: “Make Comment”
  Copy and paste ONE of these or of course in your own thoughts and words:

A. The Heritage Impact Assessment appears written to justify the proposal rather than impartially assess its impact. It omits key harms, mistakes context, fails to analyse historic views, and provides no alternatives. The HIA is incomplete and cannot be relied upon as an accurate assessment of heritage harm.

B. This is a loss of Urban Open Space and does not comply with Policy 55.

C. The planned warehouse building is four times larger the existing storeroom and not a like-for-like replacement. Policy 55 refers ONLY to replacing a building — not a yard, not a depot, not hard surface. If Bromley accepts “hardstanding area = building footprint,” it would mean: A resident could pave their entire garden then claim they can build a “replacement structure” over all of it without breaching policy. Which is plainly nonsensical and illegal.

D. INADEQUATE ECOLOGICAL BASELINE AND BNG
NPPF §180, London Plan G6, Defra BNG Statutory Guidance
The Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) assessment is based on incomplete, outdated and inaccurate ecological information.

E. The submitted Planning Documents contain errors, misnaming the site as Church Hill Depot, incomplete reports showing conflicting policy information and biased Heritage assessment.

F. There is a Material change in the use proposed on this Urban Open Space that is not covered under Policy 55

Add your name and click Submit.
 

WHY IT MATTERS

A warehouse of this scale will:

• remove public open space
   
• harm heritage views
   
• damage to wildlife corridors

Priory Gardens belongs to the community — your voice matters we have till

19th December to make our objections known.

Photos show both from plans, bottom right illustration & Unofficial illustration – not based on submitted planning drawings.