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Councillors Overrule Officers to Refuse Countryside Home at Boughton Monchelsea
Maidstone's planning committee has voted 12-1 to refuse a scheme replacing a mobile home with a permanent self-build house at Wierton Hill Farm, Boughton Monchelsea, going against officers' recommendation and ruling the development would suburbanise the countryside.
Around 400 Homes on One Agenda as Tonbridge & Malling's Planning Committee Meets
Five housing schemes - roughly 400 homes between them - go before Tonbridge and Malling's planning committee on 16 September, and officers are recommending approval on every one, with the council's depleted housing land supply looming over the meeting.
Up to 300 Homes on Countryside off Bull Lane at Eccles Recommended for Approval
An outline scheme for up to 300 houses and a community tennis facility on farmland south of Eccles, off Bull Lane near Aylesford, goes before Tonbridge and Malling councillors on 16 September with officers recommending they approve it.
Wateringbury's 66-Home Green Belt Scheme Is Refused for a Second Time
Tonbridge and Malling's planning committee has again rejected Croudace Homes' plan for 66 houses on a Green Belt field at Wateringbury, going against officers' advice and citing harm to the Medway Valley landscape and to air quality at the village crossroads. Campaigners expect the developer to appeal.
Tonbridge and Aylesford schemes get green light as planning committee debates parking and viability concerns
Tonbridge and Malling's Planning Committee approved a 34-apartment conversion in Tonbridge and a commercial building scheme in Aylesford, while deferring a 50-unit retirement home over parking worries.
Final Draft of Tonbridge and Malling's Local Plan Published Ahead of Council Vote
Tonbridge and Malling Borough Council has published the final draft of its Local Plan, with councillors due to vote on 3 September on whether to open it up for formal public consultation.
Council 'Disappointed' as Government Takes Control of 1,300-Home East Malling Decision
The Secretary of State has called in a 1,300-home development on land west of Hermitage Lane in East Malling, taking the final decision away from Tonbridge and Malling councillors who had been minded to refuse it.
Kent Wildlife Trust Sounds Alarm Over 1,500 Homes Planned Beside Sevenoaks Reserve
A newly published Local Plan proposal for land north of Sevenoaks Wildlife Reserve would bring 1,500 homes, 12 gypsy and traveller pitches and a new community and leisure centre right up against a Site of Special Scientific Interest. Kent Wildlife Trust is urging residents to respond before the consultation closes on 17 September.
Maidstone Opens Its Own Call for Sites as New Local Plan Process Begins
Maidstone Borough Council is inviting landowners, developers, agents and residents to put forward land for its new Local Plan, with submissions open until 23 August. It's the borough's own version of a process that has already proved contentious in Sevenoaks and Tonbridge & Malling, and putting a site forward is no guarantee it will ever be built on.