A fast food takeaway open from 11am to 11pm every day is planned for the empty former solicitors' office at 236 High Street. Comments close on 23 November.

A fast food takeaway is planned for the empty ground floor office at 236 High Street, Bromley, which was home to McQueens Solicitors. The application went in on 26 October and was validated by Bromley Council on 2 November (application 26/04154/FPA).

Where it is

Number 236 is at the northern end of the High Street, BR1 1PQ, a few minutes’ walk north of Market Square. It sits between Bowl O Pho at number 234 and Texas Jack’s at number 238. The flats above and behind it stay as they are. The council’s record shows the site is in a conservation area.

What was there before

McQueens Solicitors LLP gave 236 High Street as its address on its own website (contact page, archived June 2024). The firm has not closed. Its entry on the Solicitors Regulation Authority register now gives its head office as STC House, 7 Elmfield Road, Bromley.

The application form says the office use ended on 15 February 2026 and the unit has been empty since. No one works there now.

What is planned

The council lists the proposal as a change of use from a solicitors’ office to a fast food takeaway, with bins at the back. The form and the design and access statement set out:

  • opening hours of 11am to 11pm, seven days a week, bank holidays included
  • two full-time and two part-time jobs
  • 97 square metres of floor space
  • a galvanised steel extractor duct on the back wall, set into a recess away from the upstairs windows
  • refuse and recycling bins at the rear, off Harmony Way

The form expects the work to start in December and finish in February 2027.

The application does not name a brand or say what food would be sold. It was made by a private applicant through an agent.

What it means for you

Anyone can comment on the plans until 23 November. Open the application on Bromley’s planning register and choose the Comments tab, quoting reference 26/04154/FPA.

The council can decide the application from 2 December. Its target date for a decision is 28 December.