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Location: Crown Lane, Bromley, Bromley BR2 9PQ
Built: 2011
Designer: Ward Homes (developer)
Type: suburban
Density: 44 homes per hectare
Parking ratio: 180%
This development of the Blue Circle sports pitches south of Bromley will provide 800 homes between three developers, Ward, Asprey and Affinity Sutton. The scheme uses a strongly orthogonal layout with square and straight streets and mews and creates character through different street types and areas, such as Regent Square and Belgravia Square. This is not up to the standard of Regency London but immediately noticeable are the strong building lines and better quality street materials and planting. Houses are mostly standard plates with a strong nod to local vernacular traditions as well as some crisper contemporary touches. The site is about 20 minutes' walk south of Bromley's centre, one mile on the map.
Phases one and two were built by back end of 2013 and there are plans for a medical centre.
Development uses a mix of parallel and perpendicular bays to fronts of homes punctuated with planting and changes in hard landscaping materials
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Bays are differentiated from carriageway through a change in materials
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Perpendicular spaces are wrapped by soft landscaping strips to same depth as parking bays
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The parallel treatment takes up some of the space that might have been for the footway but the result is both sufficient and free of any unevenness caused by dropped kerbs and accesses
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Space submitted by Sam Brown
8 October 2013