Developer Explores Plans for Up to 64 New Homes in Leigh

A developer is exploring plans for up to 64 new homes on the edge of Leigh, the village just south-west of Tonbridge - though residents shouldn't expect a planning application imminently, as none has been submitted to Sevenoaks District Council yet.

Elivia Homes ran a public consultation on its proposals for land south of Penshurst Road earlier this year, inviting residents to comment before an outline planning application is submitted - the consultation's own feedback period closed on 10 May 2026. We checked Sevenoaks District Council's planning register and found no application registered for the site under either the address or the developer's name, so this remains a pre-application proposal rather than something residents can currently object to or support through the council's own process.

Elivia Homes describes the scheme as up to 64 homes including affordable housing, designed to reflect Leigh's character through traditional materials, with green space, children's play areas and biodiversity net gain, plus a push for greener travel such as walking and cycling routes. The developer's own literature describes the site as "grey belt" land - a category of lower-quality green belt land introduced in revised national planning policy that's considered more suitable for development than land making a stronger contribution to the belt's purposes. Source: Elivia Homes

Elivia Homes' illustrative masterplan shows vehicular access from a new priority-controlled T-junction, with a 2-metre footway on each side, and "pedestrian priority" streets through the site using mixed surfaces and traffic calming. A children's play area is pencilled in near the site entrance, homes would sit around a retained landscaped area with a sustainable drainage pond towards the eastern, allotment-adjacent edge of the site, and recreational routes would run through the public open space. The site backs onto the Leigh Conservation Area boundary and sits close to Leigh railway station. As with any pre-application illustrative plan, none of this is fixed - the layout can and typically does change once a formal application is drawn up.