Decision details

That 20 non-immediate Article 4 Directions and subsequent public consultation for a period of 6 weeks be authorised to withdraw the permitted development right granted by the Town and Country Planning General Permitted Development) (England) Order 2015 (as amended) (“the GPDO”), Schedule 2, Part 20, Class ZA, which permits a single detached building comprising uses falling within Class B1(a) (office), Class B1b (research) or Class B1c (light industrial) to be demolished and replaced with a residential (Use Class C3) use.

The Directions apply to the three Business Improvement Areas (BIA) in Bromley Town Centre; the majority of Strategic Industrial Locations (SIL) and Locally Significant Industrial Sites (LSIS); and all three Office Clusters, all as shown in the Bromley Local Plan (January 2019). The Directions will come into force 12 months from the day on which they were made, if they are subsequently confirmed following public consultation.

There could be significant adverse impacts on local amenity and wellbeing resulting from the loss of office, research and light industrial floorspace, if the

proposed Article 4 Directions are not put in place. This could undermine elements of the Development Plan, particularly economic policies set out in the Local Plan and draft new London Plan.