A newly agreed blueprint for the future of Bromley could face a legal challenge just weeks after councillors approved it.

Earlier this month councillors backed the new Local Plan that will tell developers where new houses should be built, which schools can be expanded and what the borough’s transport objectives are.

The 500-page bundle helps back the council up when it comes to rejecting developments should its decisions be appealed.

However, it has now emerged the new plan could face a legal battle.

Councillors were told at a meeting last week that the plan could be taken to judicial review by developers, who have told the council they are considering taking action.

A spokesman for the council said no challenge has yet been received.

He said: “We have received notification that the council could receive a legal challenge about the Local Plan but currently this has not been received."

The plan is still applicable despite a legal challenge potentially incoming, with inspectors having already signed off on it as being “sound” and councillors voting unanimously to formalise it earlier this month.

Bromley’s Local Plan commits to 641 homes a year, and marks out “opportunity areas” such as Bromley town centre for developers.

Protecting greenbelt land from new housing developments has been given “high priority”, but the plan says some open land can be reused to make schools bigger in the future.

The plan replaces an older version from 2006, which inspectors take less notice of due to its age.

Sites set out for potential “large” developments include Bromley Valley Gym in Chipperfield Road, Orchard Lodge in William Booth Road and Westmoreland Road car park.

It comes as Sadiq Khan’s London Plan goes through the final stages of approval, and would have housing targets in outer London boroughs such as Bromley’s more than doubled.