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own property. Noise carries and proposed activities, including outdoor sports such as football,
cricket, tennis and athletics (let alone the BBQs for parents etc. as described in the Browns School
prospectus), will cause distress to local residents and will potentially adversely affect property
values. This will not just be 9am to 4pm; it will be 12 hours a day – as any teacher will affirm.
Please note that the boundary of no. 48 is only just over 12ft from the residential properties opposite.

Lack of Security
Parents would expect their children to be safe and secure and it would be normal, surely, for schools
to provide double perimeter fencing and be sited where the school grounds can be controlled. This
property can have no such security as it has open space/fields, a cemetery and country lanes
surrounding the site. Children could easily, therefore, find themselves on the dangerous North Cray
Road or become lost and disorientated in the vast Joydens and Chalk Woods - potentially ending up
in Wilmington as such children would be very difficult to locate in these densely wooded areas.

Lack of Utility Services
It appears the site of the proposed school buildings has no main drain for sewage – the main sewer
running along the rear of the properties on the other side of Parsonage Lane. A sewage treatment
plant is surely not an acceptable Green Belt development. In addition, part of the site becomes
flooded and, additionally, drains excess surface water to the area by the access gate and,
unfortunately, across to the property immediately opposite at number 33 Parsonage Lane. As the
proposed school becomes further developed and more open land is concreted over this problem will
increase. Soakaways will not work – the area is solid clay.

There is no gas supply to this property which mean the site will need a large gas or oil container –
which is another cause for concern regarding security for such vulnerable children.

Further Congestion/Dangers on the North Cray Road (Dual Carriageway)
Both Parsonage Lane and Bunkers Hill lie on the east side of the North Cray Road which has almost
daily tail-backs into Bexley Village, often reaching The White Cross and beyond at peak rush hour
times. Not only will this proposed school add to the congestion but the incidence of cars dangerously
and illegally crossing the central reservation will increase.

Deficiency of Application Documents

We have never before seen such a poor and deficient set of documents such as were submitted to
Planning in support of this Application: notably, a serious understating of important factors such as
the true nature and extent of building work and traffic volume and its timing. An important drawing
intended to show what is being proposed for the barn gives no measurements. Photographs of the
stables and barn, presumably intended to convey relevant information, are buried deep within a
document entitled Contaminated Land Survey, as were pertinent historical maps.

As mentioned earlier, these simplistic documents are designed to mislead and understate the size and
impact of this opportunistic business venture. They should be thrown out.

Final Comments

There is a precedent for an applicant to simply seek permission to convert an existing building and
then, once this is granted, to follow it up with another seeking permission to completely demolish the
building and rebuild it. This happened at 65/67 Parsonage Lane (Ref 11/01106/FUL). We would
hope this would not be allowed to happen in this case.

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