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core budgets, and the delivery of schools and housing are weighted more critically within the IDP. Upper Norwood is currently developing its Growth Plan, which will set out expectations for intensity of new development in Upper Norwood. Bromley Bromley Council is in the process of producing its Local Development Framework and Local Plan. Its interim Core Strategy Issues document identifies the Council’s overall priorities of retaining a high quality of life for its residents, accommodating new housing (and related infrastructure) in the borough dealing with demographic change, and responding to the Mayor’s designation of Regeneration Areas within its border. Opportunities mentioned in the Core Strategy Issues document include enhanced youth and healthcare facilities, greater coordination of plans, and potentially shared facilities and services across borough boundaries. Bromley’s most recent housing trajectory (2011) suggests that the borough is exceeding the annual housing requirements of the London Plan. Penge and Anerley themselves contain a density of large social housing estates owned by Affinity Sutton, including The Groves, Castle Dean, Chulsa Estate, Anerley Hill and St Hughes, and which, having undergone renewal in the 1990’s and Decent Homes upgrades since, have no pending plans to be redeveloped or upgraded. Policy EMP4 in Bromley’s Unitary Development Plan (2006) protects existing B1, B2 and B8 uses within defined Business Areas, as the loss of employment land
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