Property developers have recently bought two houses on our street in Biggin Hill (no. 19 & 31 St Mary’s Green) - a quiet road where the residents are mostly families and retirees.
The developer’s intention is to convert what are currently family homes into HMO’s (house in multiple occupancy). We have it on good authority that the company Stef & Philips will be managing the property after the conversion has been completed, offering accommodation to tenants such as homeless, asylum seekers, vulnerable families and those with addiction issues. This information can be found on their website.
http://www.stefphilips.com/tenants/
This is on top of the many other properties within the immediate area that have been bought and are currently being turned into HMO’s or have building control plans to become one. As you can imagine this is causing a lot of concern for all the surrounding residents.
We are a small quiet community, with an already struggling infrastructure, when it comes to things such as parking, schools and GP surgeries which are already being stretched. Adding properties of this type will only add to the strain on our community.
Reported issues with having HMO's nearby have included (to name a few):
No regard for residents.
An impact on crime.
Harmful impact on the character of the area.
Difficulty selling their homes/decreased house prices.
Security risk (burglary, theft)
For our small road we already struggle to park our cars and this will only get worse, with houses with multiple occupancy. There are around 20, possibly more children living in our road, of which a few are classed as ‘Vulnerable children’, we as a community have built an environment to give them the freedom of the green, and still give them the safety they all deserve. With tenants that could possibly threaten the safety, and community-based personality of our green, the children may lose that freedom we have all worked so hard to give them.
We have created a petition as we all feel it is necessary to object to the HMO licence applications, we do not want this type of development in our nice quiet community. The council needs to take notice of its residents’ concerns.
Updates
March 24, 2021
The developers are pushing forward with these conversions despite our clear opposition. Email your local councillor today to demand a review of these planning applications.
March 24, 2021
The momentum behind this petition proves that our neighbors refuse to accept these changes to St Mary’s Green. Post the link to your Facebook feed right now and send a direct email to your local council representatives to demand a review of these plans.
17 Comments
This is a small community area with lots of family orientated and retired home owners, on the out skirts of bromley. We have children of all ages playing on the Green. The parking in the close is horrendous after people return home from work. And there is a lack of public transport, which is unreliable. The public footpaths have many alley ways which are barley lite and have potential for serous crime. Having multiple HMO,s in this area well be so detrimental.
What a crazy idea this is! This is a quiet residential area with a lack of parking and facilities already . How do these people get away with doing HMO’s with no consultation!!! Not happy
This type of accommodation always puts an inordinate amount of pressure and stress on amenities, infrastructure and utilities. The original planning conditions were not for this.
A family road with vulnerable children. Parking will become a serious issue as our road is already used for dumping cars and other cars on others roads close by.
Far too much for profit based property developers to forget the neighbourhood in which they wish to make money from despite honest hardworking community families feeling threatened and seeing their properties devalued! Disgusting!!
No
Not a good idea. More thought for the home owners should be considered before taking on this bad idea by the people behind it.
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Property developers have recently bought two houses on our street in Biggin Hill (no. 19 & 31 St Mary’s Green) - a quiet road where the residents are mostly families and retirees.
The developer’s intention is to convert what are currently family homes into HMO’s (house in multiple occupancy). We have it on good authority that the company Stef & Philips will be managing the property after the conversion has been completed, offering accommodation to tenants such as homeless, asylum seekers, vulnerable families and those with addiction issues. This information can be found on their website.
http://www.stefphilips.com/tenants/
This is on top of the many other properties within the immediate area that have been bought and are currently being turned into HMO’s or have building control plans to become one. As you can imagine this is causing a lot of concern for all the surrounding residents.
We are a small quiet community, with an already struggling infrastructure, when it comes to things such as parking, schools and GP surgeries which are already being stretched. Adding properties of this type will only add to the strain on our community.
Reported issues with having HMO's nearby have included (to name a few):
No regard for residents.
An impact on crime.
Harmful impact on the character of the area.
Difficulty selling their homes/decreased house prices.
Security risk (burglary, theft)
For our small road we already struggle to park our cars and this will only get worse, with houses with multiple occupancy. There are around 20, possibly more children living in our road, of which a few are classed as ‘Vulnerable children’, we as a community have built an environment to give them the freedom of the green, and still give them the safety they all deserve. With tenants that could possibly threaten the safety, and community-based personality of our green, the children may lose that freedom we have all worked so hard to give them.
We have created a petition as we all feel it is necessary to object to the HMO licence applications, we do not want this type of development in our nice quiet community. The council needs to take notice of its residents’ concerns.
Updates
March 24, 2021
The developers are pushing forward with these conversions despite our clear opposition. Email your local councillor today to demand a review of these planning applications.
March 24, 2021
The momentum behind this petition proves that our neighbors refuse to accept these changes to St Mary’s Green. Post the link to your Facebook feed right now and send a direct email to your local council representatives to demand a review of these plans.
17 Comments
I think this has all been underhanded with out any consideration for the local community welfare and social safety. Why should it be allowed for developers to ride roughshod over communities. Absolutely disgraceful..
This is a small community area with lots of family orientated and retired home owners, on the out skirts of bromley. We have children of all ages playing on the Green. The parking in the close is horrendous after people return home from work. And there is a lack of public transport, which is unreliable. The public footpaths have many alley ways which are barley lite and have potential for serous crime. Having multiple HMO,s in this area well be so detrimental.
What a crazy idea this is! This is a quiet residential area with a lack of parking and facilities already . How do these people get away with doing HMO’s with no consultation!!! Not happy
This type of accommodation always puts an inordinate amount of pressure and stress on amenities, infrastructure and utilities. The original planning conditions were not for this.
A family road with vulnerable children. Parking will become a serious issue as our road is already used for dumping cars and other cars on others roads close by.
Far too much for profit based property developers to forget the neighbourhood in which they wish to make money from despite honest hardworking community families feeling threatened and seeing their properties devalued! Disgusting!!
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Not a good idea. More thought for the home owners should be considered before taking on this bad idea by the people behind it.
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I think this has all been underhanded with out any consideration for the local community welfare and social safety. Why should it be allowed for developers to ride roughshod over communities. Absolutely disgraceful..