A REVISED draft plan, guiding the use and development of land in the borough for the next decade, will be published after the summer.

Bromley's Unitary Draft Plan (UDP), which will be adopted in 2004, allocates sites for specific schemes, defines areas of protected open land, and sets out policies on environmental, economic and social issues relating to the use of land.

Bromley Council's development control committee responded to more than 2,000 representations about the draft plan published last year.

Councillors have now voted to designate the former Ministry of Defence Aquila site, off Golf Road, Bickley, and Bethlem Royal Hospital as Major Developed Sites (MDS), allowing current buildings to be upgraded and rationalised but not expanded.

Proposed changes include designation of land at Worsley Bridge Road, in Beckenham, for housing, and designation of the Nugent industrial estate on Sevenoaks Way, in Orpington, for a mixed business and retail scheme.

Other changes include the release of green belt land at Crittalls Corner, in Sidcup, for a hotel and, behind the former Klingers factory on Edgington Way, for business uses.

A revised policy seeking additional affordable housing for key workers and a new policy controlling the development of shops at petrol stations will also be included.

The committee also rejected proposals by developers to build houses on the green belt in Biggin Hill, Keston, Chelsfield and Green Street Green, and on metropolitan open land in Beckenham.

Council leader Councillor Michael Tickner said: "The unitary development plan is a key document for steering future development in the borough.

"It will enable the provision of new homes and local investment in jobs while protecting the environment and the amenities, consistent with the principles of sustainable development."

The revised draft is expected to be rubber stamped by the full council on July 8 and published in September.

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