Issue - meetings

Report DRR17/063

In accordance with Brownfield Land Register Regulations (2017), officers were required to prepare and publish by 31 December 2017, a register of previously developed land (brownfield land) which had been identified and considered as appropriate sites for residential development. 

This report would also be considered by the Executive on 6 December 2017.

DCC Members were requested to endorse a summary version of the register and recommend to the Executive that the register comprise the sites as set out in Appendix 1 of the report.

The Chairman confirmed the Council had a statutory obligation to produce the document listing only those brownfield sites which were deemed appropriate for residential development within the Borough.

Councillor Fawthrop sought clarification on how a building could be assessed as appropriate for redevelopment from the first floor up (as stated on page 257 – 155-159 High Street, Orpington).  It was confirmed that this could occur where a previous planning application which included residential development from the first floor up had been granted.

Comments from Robinson Escott Planning LLP had been received and circulated to Members.  These comments referred to a site in Kemnal Road which Robinson Escott Planning had identified as Brownfield land and considered suitable as redevelopment for residential use.  Members agreed that as an application for development of the site had been refused, the site should not be added to the current list.

The Chief Planner reported all sites listed in the current register were of adequate size for redevelopment and had either previously been granted planning permission or was a site identified within the draft Local Plan.

RESOLVED that the summary version of the Brownfield Land Register be endorsed and the Executive be recommended to:-

1)  agree that Bromley’s Brownfield Land Register comprise the sites set out in Appendix 1 of the report; and

2)  authorise the chief Planner to finalise details of the Brownfield Land Register prior to publication on 31 December 2017.