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Tunbridge Wells Local Plan - Inspector REJECTS submission for 2500 house "Garden Development" at Tudeley and Capel on the grounds of traffic and other infrastructure, but also No Exceptional Circumstances that warrant changing Greenbelt Boundaries. We already believe that Tonbridge & Malling's Flagship Borough Green Garden City proposal was dead in the water, but this sounds a final death knell. FULL REPORT

 

TMBC 2022 LOCAL PLAN CONSULTATION ENDED 3rd NOVEMBER

They say 3000 responses so far, and we will be closely watching for the figures

What is the PARISH ALLIANCE ?

MIKE'S SHORT QUESTIONNAIRE - HERE

TMBC's PAPER QUESTIONNAIRE DOWNLOADED 20 OCT, print off and post

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PUBLIC MEETING 14th October Borough Green Village Hall                     BGGC DRONE VIDEO

 

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TMBC's scheme last time was to launch as a consultation "The Way Forward", effectively a draft Local Plan, which they theoretically amended to include all our concerns. The actual truth was it went forward unchanged and fell flat on its face.

So this time they are asking questions about every possible element that is needed to build the Local Plan, and they then theoretically  draft a plan that reflects what we have said. But it is so hugely complex, with even the basic documents running to some 1300 pages - even I didn't read it all.

 

These are the important documents:

REGULATION 18 LOCAL PLAN which is drafted as questionnaire, but I have edited it down from 130 pages to 8, that just gives you the basic questions:

SHORT REG 18 QUESTIONNAIRE pdf version      SHORT REG 18 QUESTIONNAIRE DOC version

Or you can copy mine and edit it to suit

SHORT QUESTIONNAIRE pdf version by Mike       SHORT QUESTIONNAIRE doc version by Mike

But there seem to be "tripwire" questions, and I have written a little guide below

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The site maps/locations doc is 1300 pages long, so I have included our sites by Parish below

BOROUGH GREEN SITE LIST                WROTHAM SITE LIST                       PLATT SITE LIST

BOROUGH GREEN PLANS                     WROTHAM PLANS                           PLATT PLANS

SITE LISTS & PLANS OTHER PARISHES           

   IGHTHAM         ADDINGTON           TROTTISCLIFFE            HADLOW         PLAXTOL               SHIPBOURNE

                                        

                                                         BOROUGH GREEN GARDEN CITY SITE  

 

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 GREEN BELT STUDY   This is where TMBC attempt to justify using Greenbelt Land in preference to other unconstrained sites in the Borough to push a large lump of their development needs into our little Green Corner

To be honest, I can't make head nor tail of their sustainability scoring, and as we are not yet commenting on specific sites, it makes sense to defer any comment on that until the Regulation 19 Consultation next year

 INTERIM SUSTAINABILITY APPRAISAL          Site List inc maps and locations

 INTERIM SUSTAINABILITY REPORT    Contains site list numbers and sustainability markers 

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 KCC MINERALS AND WASTE SAFEGUARDING - TMBC AREA PLAN

    TMBC AREA PLAN  WROTHAM HEATH AREA EXTRACT - the redhatched area is safeguarded from development by essential Soft Sand Reserves

Nepicar Min Safe Boundary.JPG
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