Friends of Bromley Town Parks & Gardens

Promoting Bromley’s green centre

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The Friends of Bromley Town Parks & Gardens are a small voluntary group keen to support our local public parks. More….
P lease join and support  this good cause for only £5 per household.  You can download a membership form.

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We support the following parks in Bromley Town Centre
Click on any of the links below to find more about them.
Church House Gardens
Bromley Palace (Civic Centre )Grounds
College Green
Library Gardens
Martin’s Hill
Queen’s Gardens
Queen’s Mead
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15th May 2012: Royal Visit to Queen’s Gardens.
The Queen and Duke of Edinburgh visit these gardens which were given to people of Bromley in 1897 in celebration of Queen Victoria’s own Diamond Jubilee.
9th May 2012: Spruce up of Queen’s Gardens for  Royal Visit.
Major tidy up of these gardens starts for Her asty’s visit on 15th May.
3rd May 2012: New Planning Application for Queen’s Gardens.
Bromley council have published a notice of the Glades new planning application for 5 restaurants on part of Queen’s Gardens. We will again seek widespread opposition to this. More…. 
18th April 2012: Notice of Town Green application published
A Public Notice of Friends & BCS application for threatened part of Queens Gardens to be designated as a Town Green published in News Shopper. To see go to -
http://www.newsshopper.co.uk/resources/files/18780/
16th April 2012: New plans for Queen’s Garden development 
Owners of the Glades Shopping Centre have advised that they have submitted a new planning application to Bromley council with only minor changes from that previously rejected.More details..
14th February 2012: Queen’s Garden development  rejected
LBB Development Control Committee narrowly rejected the Glades planning application. 


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Bromley Town Parks flickr group

London Borough Bromley.

Bromley Biodiversity Partnership

Bromley Town Safer Neighbourhood Team. 

Friends Forum.

RSPB (Bromley) 

Quaggy Waterway Action Group (QWAG).

Environmental Agency incident reporting.

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EVENTS

Wednesday 9 & 23 May 2012. Walks around Town Centre parks.

Starts from  CHG Lodge at 11.00am and lasts about 1.5 hour.

 

Sunday 13 May 2012. Working party.

Meet at CHG Lodge at 2.30pm.

 

Tuesday 18 May 2012. Queen visits Bromley.

Including Queen’s Gardens

 

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Crystal Palace from Martin’s Hill in 1863

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Flower bed & the surrounding area of Queen’s Garden under threat to development.