Direction of Travel Consultation July to September 2025
From 25 July 2025 to 26 September 2025, the council consulted on its Direction of Travel Local Plan document. The document includes the proposed vision and objectives for the new Local Plan and the preferred policy direction for different policy areas.
The Direction of Travel document is accompanied by the Integrated Impact Assessment Scoping Report. This document has been informed by consultation with Historic England, the Environment Agency and Natural England and sets the baseline of environmental, social and economic issues and the broad framework that will be used to assess the Local Plan.
A range of evidence base documents have also been published. These documents will help to inform the preparation of the new Local Plan.
The council also published a consultation statement (PDF - 2.07 MB) which summarises representations received in previous Local Plan Review consultations; and sets out how these representations have informed the Direction of Travel document.
The Direction of Travel document (PDF - 896.77 KB) includes chapters for each policy area and sets out:
- An introduction to the policy theme;
- A summary of the current policy position;
- A summary of the consultation feedback received so far;
- A summary of the evidence published so far relating to the topic and information on evidence still being produced;
- The preferred policy direction for the policy theme and the next steps for developing the Local Plan; and
- Consultation questions for the policy theme.
The document does not contain draft policies.
Next steps
Following the Direction of Travel consultation, the council will prepare the Submission Draft Local Plan, with the intention to consult on this draft in Summer 2026, in order to submit the Local Plan for examination by the Government’s December 2026 deadline. This draft will include full draft policies and site allocations.
Once adopted, the new Local Plan will replace the existing Local Plan, and will be used to determine planning applications in Bromley.
Further information
If you have any further questions regarding the Local Plan review, please email the planning policy team at ldf@bromley.gov.uk.