Plans to bulldoze an old community hall in Beckenham in place of a block of flats have been submitted to Bromley Council.

The Crusader Hall site behind Beckenham High Street could finally get a new lease of life as proposals for nine new apartments have been put in to the council’s planning team.

The scheme is two years in the making and, if approved by the council’s planning experts, could see the empty 70s clubhouse demolished entirely.

Earlier plans included 12 flats, but the developers have scaled this back because of parking issues.

The developer, Architects Plus, is planning to build seven two bedroom flats and two one bedroom apartments, and nine parking spaces.

The building is currently empty and “covered in vegetation”, according to planning documents, and was last occupied in 2015.

In its application, Architects Plus said the scheme would “contribute towards the borough’s housing supply targets” and “regenerate an unused, previously developed site, to improve its appearance and ecological value and make the most effective use of the site.”

The new flats would be across three floors and set back from the high street behind shops and accessed via the existing link road.