Policy information sourced from Bromley Local Plan

Policy 29 Education Site Allocations 

Subject to Local Plan Policy 27 ‘Education’, the Council will seek to meet the need for education provision over the Local Plan period as identified in the Council’s Primary and Secondary School Development Plans, by allocating sites for educational purposes and re-designating school sites in Green Belt and Metropolitan Open Land as Urban Open Space (as indicated in tables 3 ,4, 7, 8 and 9 illustrated and on the “Location of sites identified as allocations or involving re-designations to facilitate new or expanded education provision” Map and detailed in Appendix 10.4)

A: allocating the following sites for new / enhanced education provision:

  • 1 Westmoreland Road
  • St Hugh’s Playing Field, Bickley Road
  • Land at Bushell Way, Chislehurst, and
  • Kentwood Site, High Street, Penge

B: allocating the following sites for new education provision, removing them from Green Belt or Metropolitan Open Land and re-designating them as Urban Open Space, safeguarded as ‘Education Land’ for education development only:

  • Land adjacent to Edgebury Primary School, Slades Drive
  • Turpington Lane, Bromley Common
  • Langley Park School for Boys and Langley Park School for Girls
  • Bromley Education Trust Hayes Lane
  • Midfield site, Midfield Way (including primary school and alternative provision)

C: Removing areas within the following existing school sites from Green Belt or Metropolitan Open Land and re-designating them as Urban Open Space to facilitate expansion of education facilities only:

  • Edgebury Primary School
  • Scotts Park Primary School
  • St Mary Cray Primary School
  • Wickham Common Primary School
  • James Dixon Primary School
  • Oaklands Primary School
  • Castlecombe Primary School and Youth Centre

Planning applications will be required to provide robust assessments of the impacts of development, including for example, highways implications, and provide appropriate mitigation to address adverse impacts.

For more information please see the Local Plan