# Footway outside 171-173 High Street, Beckenham (BT Street Hub)

- **Decision:** allowed, 25 August 2026
- **Decided by:** Planning Inspector: Les Greenwood
- **Authority:** Bromley (London)
- **Appeal reference:** 6010814
- **Application reference:** 26/00382/FPA
- **Procedure:** written-representations
- **Development:** BT Street Hub with two 75-inch digital screens, replacing a kiosk (linked advert appeal 6010816)
- **Site context:** inside-settlement, conservation-area
- **Green Belt:** no
- **Framework applied:** August 2026 NPPF
- **Determinative policies:** HE6, S4
- **Development plan policies:** London Plan 2021 D8, HC1, Bromley Local Plan 2019 policies 37, 41, 102
- **Main issues:** conservation area character and amenity
- **Tags:** telecoms, street-hub, transitional-no-consultation, conservation-area, tier-2

## Summary
A BT Street Hub with digital screens in the Beckenham Town Centre Conservation Area was allowed. Removing the existing kiosk meant the proposals would enhance the street scene (DL ¶10).

## What made the difference
A kiosk-removal condition and the town-centre context. The inspector invoked S4's support in principle for development within settlements (DL ¶10). Contrast PINS-6010846 and PINS-6010865.

## Policy findings
- **HE6: pass.** with removal of the existing kiosk, the proposals would enhance the Beckenham Town Centre CA (DL 10)
- **S4: pass.** "generally accord with Framework policy S4's support in principle for development within settlements" (DL 10)

## Key facts
- Not re-consulted given the "comparatively minor scale and nature" of the proposals (DL 4)
- Condition requires removal of the existing kiosk outside 179 High Street before installation

## Sources
- https://appeal-planning-decision.service.gov.uk/comment-planning-appeal/appeals/6010814
- https://appeal-planning-decision.service.gov.uk/published-document/76a31579-bb90-48d2-b315-5b32c997c984

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