WESTERHAM'S MAIN INDUSTRIAL AREA lies just off the London Road to the north of the town, and is centred on the site of the old railway station.
Apart from some of the old station buildings which are now in use as business premises, the area consists of units built in the 1980s and 1990s. Those to the north of Hortons Way are used mainly by light industry, and those to the south are mostly offices.
Construction methods have varied from brick with metal cladding, to mostly metal-clad. Some of the more modern buildings use more brick and have shorter elevations, with a general colour in keeping with the overall character of the town. But the larger warehouse units have substantial metal elevations which give a sharp and not always welcome contrast with other buildings in the area.
A number of office buildings in the Churchill Court area have been designed with more imagination, but display few features typical of the architecture of the town; and the colour of materials is often in stark contrast to Westerham's more usual red brick.
Areas of detail such as air conditioning units are poorly, and in some cases barely, concealed; and the tinting of windows and the colour of blinds sometimes give a less than pleasing effect.
In future there should be more use of hedges, walls, fences, trees and shrubs in order to break up the outlines of larger buildings.
There is commerce outside this dedicated industrial area, an important example being the extraction of sand at the Squerryes sandpit between Farley Common and the M25. Here, more excavation is planned between the present workings and the motorway; but the pit, while large and very
