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Search the Public Notice PortalBerkeley Homes have finally submitted their long-awaited planning application to build more than 2000 new homes on Hayes Farm and the surrounding green belt land.
I know that many local people are deeply concerned about the impact this application could have on the area they love and call home
Bromley is a great place to live, work and raise a family because it’s one of the greenest boroughs in London. Over half of the area is protected green belt land, and around a third is farmland. That’s why more than 330,000 people are proud to call our borough home.
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Once our green belt has been built on, that is it, we cannot replace it, it is gone forever.
I agree that we need homes, I want to see young people be able to stay in Bromley and continue to contribute to our borough. But developments like this are not the answer. I favour a brownfield-first approach to building in London. There are appropriate sites for development in our borough, but they must have the infrastructure, transport connections, and services to support new communities.
This approach does work. We have already seen developments approved in Bromley on brownfield land such as at the old civic centre. This development will see 222 new homes on the brownfield site, as well as the refurbishment of the former Bishop's Palace and the restoration of heritage assets within the nearby Bromley Palace Park.
It's a myth that green belt land in London is well-connected, near local amenities, and has sufficient infrastructure. This development at Hayes Farm is no different. Moreover, it also risks eroding access to nature for a huge number of local residents.
When I was elected in 2024, I said that I would stand with local people in opposing inappropriate development on our green belt and I stand wholeheartedly opposed to this planning application.
Just a few months ago, Conservative Councillors were elected in the wards surrounding Hayes Farm who also stood on a promise to oppose the concreting of our greenbelt. Local residents have decisively spoken against unsustainable development in Bromley.
I have also been running a survey on this planning application; the results of that survey show the overwhelming strength of feeling against building over Hayes Farm. More than 500 people responded and only 12 were supportive of the plans.
I would encourage everyone who lives in the area to make their views known, the application is live on Bromley Council’s planning portal for comments. Development must be by local consent, and it is clear to me that there is no local consent for Berkeley Homes’ plans.
I do not want to see our precious green spaces lost forever, and residents have my full support in calling for this application to be rejected.
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