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Caravan owners may have prepared themselves for the loss of a site in Bromley but a review of plans to build flats on the park at Crystal Palace are to be reviewed.

Secretary of state Hazel Blears recently wrote to the Crystal Palace Park Association (CPCA) to say that the plans would be reassessed after thousands of objections to the build were made.

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The camping and caravan site was to become home to 180 new apartments after planning by the London Development Agency (LDA) received the go-ahead from Bromley council at the end of last year.

More than 7,000 objections were made to the planned development and the CPCA has been campaigning against the build.

The chairman of the organisation, John Payne, said: "We are encouraged that the secretary of state has called the application in, recognising the contentiousness of an application including building houses on protected parkland. For the first time proper scrutiny may now be applied to the LDA application."

In the letter, drafted by Pamela Roberts, of the Government Office for London, Ms Roberts said that it was likely the secretary of state would only make the decision to call in a planning application if issues are posed relating to more than just the locale.

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