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Welcome

The Council is currently preparing a new Local Plan which will guide future development in the borough up to 2036.

We consulted in 2017 on the first stage of the new Local Plan’s preparation: the Issues and Options stage.

This is an opportunity for you to have a say during the second stage in the new Local Plan’s preparation: the Draft Local Plan.

We hope that by attending this exhibition, and talking to the Council officers here, this will help you to: • learn more about the Draft Local Plan for the borough • know where on the website to look for further information tunbridgewells.gov.uk/localplan • make comments on the Draft Local Plan 2 This exhibition presents the main elements of the Draft Local Plan

It highlights, in turn: The supporting documents fall under the following broad themes:

●● Context of the Local Plan ●●Housing, including: ●● The work that underpins the Local Plan ●●the topic paper explaining the Distribution of Development ●● The proposed development strategy ●●the Strategic Housing and Economic Land Availability ●● Proposals for particular towns and villages (focusing on local places) Assessment (which assesses whether the sites ●● Subject themes and policies submitted to the Council by landowners and developers ●● Making comments and next steps are potentially suitable for development)

●●Employment, Leisure & Retail, including evidence on the Available information economic needs, retail and hotel capacity of the borough

We are consulting on the Draft Local Plan, and its Sustainability Appraisal – please ●●Environment & landscape, including: see the relevant board for more information on the Sustainability Appraisal). ●●the Strategic Flood Risk Assessment All of the documents which support the Draft Local Plan, including the evidence ●●the Landscape Sensitivity Study base, further information on particular topics, and other papers, are all published and available on the Council’s website: tunbridgewells.gov.uk/localplan ●●Transport & infrastructure, including: ●●the Infrastructure Delivery Plan which sets out the infrastructure required to support the proposals in the Draft Local Plan ●●the Transport Assessment Review which models the transport Paper copies of the main documents may also be seen at: impacts of the proposals, and how this impact can be addressed • the Tunbridge Wells Gateway • your local town or parish council ●●Others, including the Interim Duty to Cooperate Statement • your local library which explains how the Council discusses important planning and infrastructure matters with other Councils

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Why is the Draft Local Plan so detailed? Why are we The Council considers it is best to consult at this Why is the Local undertaking Plan needed? stage on a full draft of consultation on the the Local Plan, so there Planning law and national is absolute clarity on the policy require the Council Draft Local Plan? sites and policies which to produce a Local Plan Legislation and regulations are being proposed. that looks ahead for at require that all Councils least 15 years, and to undertake consultation The Draft Local Plan review it at least every five at different stages when provides a strategy for years to take account of producing a Local Plan: development, place shaping changing circumstances. usually for a minimum of policies for different parts two ‘consultation periods’. of the borough and detailed Without an up-to-date policies covering key Local Plan, development However, the Council themes such as affordable will come forward in an thinks that the views of housing, transport, capacity unplanned way, including residents, businesses, etc, of infrastructure, and more frequently through are of vital importance to contributing to climate developers pursuing the development of the new change objectives. appeals to the ‘Planning Local Plan, and therefore Inspectorate’. This can result that it is best to have three This means that the in a reduction in the ability consultation periods, so Draft Local Plan is a long for decisions to be made that your comments and document of several locally, and increases the representations on the Draft hundred pages, but this risk that development may Local Plan can be considered is necessarily so, as it not deliver the important and taken into account in covers such a wide range of necessary infrastructure the formation of the final matters, and must plan for or meet local priorities. version of the Local Plan. such a long period of time.

Board 3 4 Context for the new Local Plan

How many new Are there other homes are needed? development needs? Government projections estimate that While this level of growth is far higher than New population generates a need the number of households in the borough existing plans provide for, the Government for other development, such as is expected to increase by nearly 10,000 has made clear its expectation that councils employment space, community households over the plan period, up to achieve a ‘significant boost’ in the supply and leisure facilities, schools and 2036. This mainly reflects demographic of homes to meet identified needs. other new infrastructure. changes, with people living longer and the trend of smaller household sizes. With In addition, the Council is obliged to Work undertaken as part of the further homes needed to help improve local consider whether there are opportunities evidence base has indicated that a affordability, Government’s figures identify to help meet any needs that cannot be minimum of 14 hectares (35 acres) a housing need for the borough of 13,560 met in neighbouring Council areas. of additional employment land is dwellings over the period 2016-2036. required to support the growing workforce and strengthen the economic base of the borough.

Environmental designations As well as aiming to meet development needs, national planning policy also attaches importance to environmental designations, including Green Belts and Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONBs). The map below indicates the extent of the Green Belt (which extends round and up to the western edge of ) and the High Weald Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB). Together these designations cover 75% of the Borough. The map also shows the key areas which are subject to flooding, the main transport routes, and the main settlements. There are also other important designations, including for biodiversity (such as SSSIs, Local Wildlife Sites and Ancient Woodland) and heritage (such as Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas). The Development Strategy considers all these designations, which help define local character. 5 Evolution of the Development Strategy The Draft Local Plan proposes to meet development needs as much as possible within the context of the various constraints in the borough, including the Green Belt, Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) and areas of flooding. The assessment of potential sources of land supply is summarised below.

Urban brownfield and undesignated land In order to maximise the use of urban land, the strategy provides support for the development of brownfield sites in and around settlements. Previously identified sites have been looked at again to see if more development can be accommodated, whilst still ensuring that the local environment will be protected.

In addition, recognising that small sites continue to come forward on a regular basis, the strategy makes allowance for small unidentified ‘windfall’ sites (50 dwellings per year from 2022 – 2036), many of which will be on brownfield land.

As the map on the previous board shows, only a fairly narrow belt of land along the northern edge of the borough lies outside of the national environmental designations, extending from Paddock Wood in the west to around in the east, and including .

However, it is clear from an assessment of sites put forward by landowners and developers to successive “calls for sites” that the combined capacity of suitable sites within existing urban areas, sites outside of the Green Belt, as well as small sites in the AONB, is small relative to the housing need. 6 Evolution of the Development Strategy

New and expanded settlements Green Belt and High Weald Given the large housing need and the fact that Area of Outstanding feedback from earlier consultation on an ‘Issues Natural Beauty (AONB) and Options’ document gave “in principle” support for a new settlement, options for Detailed examination of the potential for potential locations have also been evaluated. other Green Belt releases and some larger developments in the AONB has A new or expanded settlement within the been undertaken. AONB was discounted, as being of too large a scale to be justifiable in the context of policies Following assessment of the contribution to conserve its landscape and scenic beauty. of land to Green Belt objectives, a relatively small proportion - about 5.3% A new/expanded settlement in either the – is being released for development, with eastern, Frittenden area or the central/ about 83% of this being through the two northern, Horsmonden area was ruled out new/expanded settlements. The balance for a combination of highway suitability, includes seven sites being proposed for access to jobs and higher order services, and housing and two sites for employment use. very rural character, as well as piecemeal land ownership (with no large sites submitted) in the case of Frittenden.

A number of sites around Paddock Wood, extending into Capel Parish were submitted which, collectively, would amount to a substantial expansion. It was recognised that there is merit in taking a comprehensive, integrated approach to growth in order to effectively address transport, flood risk and other infrastructure provision, as well as to help provide an economic stimulus.

Although within the Green Belt, land at Tudeley is outside the AONB and relatively well related to nearby Tonbridge, Paddock Wood and Royal Tunbridge Wells/ Southborough. Also, it is deliverable, being essentially in a single ownership.

These two proposals to be delivered through An assessment of the capacity for larger a masterplanned approach, applying garden developments in towns and villages settlement principles, are elaborated upon within the AONB found some scope for on the Capel and Paddock Wood boards. residential and employment development spread across a number of settlements. 7 The Development Strategy The proposed development strategy that has resulted from the analysis is presented in the Draft Local Plan on the ‘Key Diagram’ – see adjoining board.

The total capacity of all identified sites in the Draft Local Tunbridge Wells Borough Council Draft Policies Map Plan (comprising outstanding planning permissions, retained sites from the previous Local Plan allocations,

Inset Map 7 Inset Map 5 together with the proposed new allocations) is 14,776 net Inset Map 6 Inset Map 8 additional dwellings. This is 9% more than the Government’s minimum Inset Map19 Inset Map 4 requirement of some 13,560 dwellings, which provides Inset Inset Map Inset Map 21 20 Map 31 Inset Map 28 Inset flexibility for any delays and/or the non-delivery of a Inset Map 2 Map 22 Inset Inset Map 25 proportion of the identified sites. Map 29 Inset Inset This capacity for further housing means that the borough Map 27 Map 6

Inset does not have the scope to meet unmet need of some 1,900 Map 6 Inset Map 11 homes from Sevenoaks area. Inset Map Inset Map 26 10 Further information about the evolution of the Inset Inset Inset Map 9 Map16 Map 24 Inset Map development strategy is set out in a Distribution of 12 Development Topic Paper – available at Inset Map 16 Inset tunbridgewells.gov.uk/localplan Map 15 Inset Map 18

Specific sites that are proposed to be allocated for Inset Map 13 development are shown on the Policies Map - Inset Maps Inset for each settlement. The coverage of these is illustrated on Map 14 the map opposite. Inset maps for locations covered by this Inset Map 30 exhibition are displayed on subsequent boards. To view Inset Maps for other locations, please speak to a planning officer. 0 1 2 4 6 8 KM © Crown Copyright and database rights 2019 Ordnance Survey 100024298 Map Dated: July 2019 Limits to Built Development (LBDs) Limits to Built Development (LBDs) are policy lines Within LBDs, there is a presumption that Outside LBDs, much stricter countryside policies used to differentiate between the built-up areas development such as infilling, redevelopment and over new development apply, although some of settlements and areas of countryside beyond. changes of use are acceptable in principle, subject specific exceptions exist, such as for agricultural They are drawn around settlements to help focus to meeting policy requirements, such as to protect and woodland activities, equestrian and tourism growth in sustainable locations and to protect amenities, local character and biodiversity. uses, and affordable housing to meet local needs. more rural areas from inappropriate development. 8 The Proposed Development Strategy, Key Diagram and Main Proposals

Pembury ●●Approx 280 dwellings on five & sites, plus 19 which already Land at Capel and Paddock ●Approx 121 dwellings on four sites Frittenden have planning permission Wood, and Tudeley – page 6 ● Southborough Horsmonden ●●Approx 28 dwellings on one site ●New car sales complex ●●Approx 50-120 dwellings on ● ●●Approx 265 dwellings on allocated sites, plus 85 which ●●New road to run parallel to three allocated sites already have planning permission the A228 (Colts Hill bypass) ●●Horsmonden is outside the AONB, Cranbrook & ●●The Southborough Hub which has been a factor in the amount of housing allocated here ●●Approx 697 dwellings in Cranbrook and Hartley (which includes approx 225 at land adjacent to the Crane Valley allocated in the current Local Plan), and 64 which already have planning permission ●●Approx 18 dwellings on one site ●●Approx 108 dwellings at Sissinghurst and a replacement village hall

Royal Tunbridge Wells ●●Approx 780 dwellings allocated on ●Approx 43 dwellings at 17 sites, plus 440 dwellings which ● Benenden, plus 12 which already already have planning permission have planning permission ●●14 hectare business with ●Approx 47 dwellings at East End over 80,000 sqm floorspace ● (outside the AONB) plus 22 which ●●New secondary school and two have planning permission primary schools extended ●Site allocations correspond ●Approx 15 dwellings on one site ● ●●New sports hub ● with those in the Benenden Neighbourhood Plan ●●New cultural and leisure facilities ●●Removal of Limits to Built ●●Major new business park adjoining North Farm Development at ●●Approx 55 dwellings on two sites

Hawkhurst ●●Approx 681 dwellings, plus 25 which already have planning permission ●●At Highgate, the provision of a new link road across the Golf Course, enabling the closure of the ●●25 dwellings, all of which already northern arm of the crossroads have planning permission Sandhurst ●●New village hall, doctor’s surgery, ●Removal of Limits to Built parking and expansion of Gill’s ● ●Approx 24 dwellings on two sites Development at Kilndown ● Green employment area Sustainability Appraisal

Sustainable development is the key goal of the planning system and is defined as: ‘Development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs’ (World Commission on Environment and Development, 1987)

To ensure that the Draft Local Plan contributes to sustainable development, a Sustainability Appraisal has been undertaken.

It assesses the strategy, site allocations and policies in the Plan – and reasonable alternatives to them - against nineteen sustainability objectives that reflect social, economic, and environmental issues.

The findings of the Sustainability Appraisal have informed the choices made about the pattern of future development, as well as the scope and nature of themed policies.

It is inevitable that many proposals will have a mixture of potentially positive and negative effects. Where potentially negative effects are highlighted, measures to mitigate these are incorporated into policies, wherever practicable.

The Sustainability Appraisal, which includes a Non-Technical Summary, is available to view at: www.tunbridgewells.gov.uk/localplan

The Sustainability Appraisal is published for consultation alongside the Draft Local Plan. Details of how to comment are on the last exhibition board and on the website, as above. Infrastructure What is infrastructure? How is infrastructure provided? The term ‘infrastructure’ refers to the There are times where the government, or facilities which enable an area to function. particular agencies/organisations, deliver It includes things like: new infrastructure, and provide all the funding for this. However, in most ● transport routes; ● instances, new infrastructure is largely or ●● schools; entirely funded by new development. ● libraries; ● It is an important element of the national ●● doctors surgeries and hospitals; planning system that development ●● areas of open space and playing fields; proposals are only required to provide the infrastructure, or the money to pay for that ● cultural or social facilities, ● infrastructure, to deal with the increased such as community halls; pressure which that development puts on the ●● broadband and mobile phone coverage; system. The planning system cannot usually ●● areas of flood storage, or flood defences. require infrastructure provided as part of a development to rectify any existing problems. Liaison with infrastructure providers Throughout the preparation of the Draft Local Plan the Council has been liaising with infrastructure providers to identify what infrastructure will be required, and when.

Key infrastructure schemes and requirements are identified in the Infrastructure Delivery Plan.

Key Elements of infrastructure include:

●● Two new secondary schools (between Tonbridge and Tudeley, and at Spratsbrook, south of Royal Tunbridge Wells);

●● A new road to run parallel to the A228 (the Colts Hill bypass)

●● Flood mitigation measures, particularly at Capel and Paddock Wood Colts Hill bypass Policy Themes The Local Plan contains a range of new or updated policies to address particular issues associated with certain aspects or types of development. These are grouped under five themes, as below.

Economic Development Housing

Issues and Opportunities Issues and Opportunities The borough must ensure that there ●● The borough is identified as a ‘high is a sufficient level of employment affordability pressure area’ in space and opportunities to continue significant need of affordable housing supporting the local economy provision, reflected by the average There is an increasing need for house price being 12.76 times greater new technology/high speed than median earnings in 2018 broadband that enables increased ●● There is an ageing population in the opportunities to work from home borough whose needs will need to be and in rural areas of the borough planned for in the years to come Local shops and services need ●● Small-scale householder proposals to be protected and retained must be in-keeping with the form wherever possible to ensure that and scale of existing buildings communities have continued access to these in years to come Policy Response Policy Response ●● Increased affordable housing provision on larger greenfield sites and financial ●● Identification of key employment contributions from smaller sites, areas and retention of existing with higher levels to be provided as sites (Policies ED1 and ED2) social rented housing (Policy H5) ● New digital communications ● ●● New policy promoting the housing and fibre network requirements needs of older people (Policy H9) in new development to enable greater broadband connectivity ●● Updated policies for householder across the borough (Policy ED3) proposals (Policies H15 – H17) ●● Provision for business, tourism and recreation development in rural areas (Policies ED4 – ED7 These are the headlines of a selection of key policies. For the full scope ● More flexible approaches to ● and wording of policies, please see commercial centres, including more Section 6 of the Draft Local Plan. support for the retention of local shops and services (Policies ED8 – ED12) Policy Themes The Local Plan contains a range of new or updated policies to address particular issues associated with certain aspects or types of development. These are grouped under five themes, as below.

Environment Issues and Opportunities Policy Response New development must be sustainably ●● New design policy (Policy EN1) built for generations to come in light ●● New targets for more sustainable of the UK government’s declaration buildings, adaptive to climate of a climate change emergency change (Policies EN2 – EN5) The core historic and heritage assets of the ●● Requirements to conserve heritage borough’s settlements must be conserved assets (Policies EN6 – EN8) Net gains for nature must be achieved in all ●● New approach promoting dark skies new development to support the government’s in rural areas (Policy EN10) recent strengthened approach toward ●● New, positive approach to biodiversity, conserving and enhancing biodiversity including principle of net gains (Policies EN11 – EN15) There is now scope to ensure that Local Green Spaces demonstrably special to ●● Over 200 Local Green Space designations local communities are protected across many settlements (Policy EN17) ●● Wide-ranging recognition of landscape quality, including the These are the headlines of a selection AONB (Policies EN18 – EN21) of key policies. For the full scope ●● New green infrastructure policy and and wording of policies, please see supporting framework (Policy EN16) Section 6 of the Draft Local Plan. Policy Themes The Local Plan contains a range of new or updated policies to address particular issues associated with certain aspects or types of development. These are grouped under five themes, as below.

Transport Open Space, Sport Issues and Opportunities and Recreation

●● In support of government initiatives to Issues and Opportunities reduce the country’s carbon emissions, ●● Green and open spaces are important, and local policy should, where possible, as the population in the borough increases, promote the use of active travel (including their importance will also increase. These walking and cycling) over private car use areas must therefore be safeguarded for ●● A suitable level of parking future generations from development provision should be provided across the borough that reduces Policy Response the need for on-street parking ●● Identification of existing open ●● Transport infrastructure should be space areas and facilities to be sustainably planned so that future protected (Policy OSSR1) needs can be accommodated ●● Standards for new publicly accessible ●● Disused railways should be safeguarded open space and recreation alongside to either allow for potential reopening new development (Policy OSSR2) as a means of providing further future transport options or for green infrastructure purposes

Policy Response

●● Further promotion of active travel (walking and cycling) (Policy TP2) ●● Increased parking standards (Policy TP3) ●● Safeguarding land for road and rail schemes (Policies TP5 and TP6)

These are the headlines of a selection of key policies. For the full scope and wording of policies, please see Section 6 of the Draft Local Plan. Making Comments

We hope that you have found the exhibition useful and have a better understanding of what the Draft Local Plan is proposing – and why.

You can comment on any aspect of the Draft Local Plan, or the accompanying Sustainability Appraisal.

Comments need to be in writing (including electronic submissions).

To comment, please visit the Local Plan web page: www.tunbridgewells.gov.uk/localplan

There is a link to the Consultation Portal where you can read the document, draft your comments and submit them to us at the press of a button. There is also a link to a downloadable comments form if you prefer. A separate form should be submitted for each representation.

Please remember - comments must be received by the Council no later than 5pm on Friday 1 November 2019 in order to be duly considered.

What happens next All comments received within the consultation period will be considered by the Council and will inform the final form of the Local Plan

This illustration shows where we are in the plan-making process.

There will be an opportunity to make formal representations on the final version of the Local Plan before the plan is then examined by an independent Planning Inspector acting on behalf of the Government. Thank you for coming Lamberhurst Parish

Lamberhurst Neighbourhood Development Plan Lamberhurst is producing a Neighbourhood Lamberhurst Draft Policies Map - Inset Map 26 Development Plan. The Council has been liaising and TP 6 EN 7

Butterfly Cottage EN 7 working with the Neighbourhood Plan Group on the Cooksbroom Wood

Grantham Hall

72.0m emerging Neighbourhood Development Plan. This EN 7 79.7m has included arranging and attending workshops, EN 7

EN 7 EN 7 and reviewing content of the draft Neighbourhood EN 7

Owl house farm Development Plan when/where requested. EN 7 61.4m

B 2162 137000 137000 The Council will continue to work with the 62.0m EN 7

Neighbourhood Plan Group in the coming months. Pond Meadow

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The Priory Farm 70.5m Policy STR 9: Neighbourhood Plans, and the Marchan ts

Parsonag e Cottag e supporting text to this, is on pages 59-60 of the B2162 (um) EN 7 Church

56.1m 67.6m The Tim beryard

Barnfield Oast 64.2m CHU RC H ROAD Draft Local Plan. 96.5m The Priory Hornbeams Coach House Garden Cooksbro om

MOUNT PLEASANT Club

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Wo od Bradworth Lodge ______MS Cro mwell Hou se 73.6m PARSON AGE L ANE 55.2m Spur H ouse Cuttho rn MOUNT PLEASANT Park Gate

EN 7 Heathe rtye 65.7m 44.6m 3 OSSR 1 St Mary's Church

Priory Cottages Coggers Bank EN 12 Court Lodge EN 17 57.8m

55.7m Policy STR/LA1 – Strategy for Lamberhurst Parish 62.2m

St Marys Court

War Meml The Forge

Wheelwright Cotts Greenside 2

Two sites are proposed to be allocated for 136500 Manor Cottages EN 17 136500

36 Campe rs Laburnum C ottage

OSSR 1 Tudor Cott age 13 The Old 20 SCHOOL HILL Scho ol 24 development, providing approximately 50-60 new Upwe y H ouse We ll HOPGARDEN CLOSE Au tumn En d Orchard Allot Gdns 18 14 Tyled C ottage 30 Dormy On e The Po und 44.8m Tyled H ouse Golf Course EN Kimb erley

BREWER STREET EN 12 25 17 Holly H ou High Banks dwellings. 28 se Hops Co ttage 33 Ricard Durham C ottage 21 Mews 1 to 4 Ricards Crown 1 to 9

Allotment Gardens 16 EN Cogge rs Lamberhurst 17 Stair Ho use DRIVE There are very minor changes proposed to the Geo rge and EN 18 Dra gon EN 18

MORLAN D Bridge House 11

Forge H ouse

Chequ ers ‘Limits to Built Development’ around the main built- EN 7 Ba rn Inn FBs We ir Field Shaw Manor Den EN 18 EN 7 CLIVED ON COUR T River THE BR OADWAY Pavilio n Teise Hall Playground

Ps PC up area of the settlement. Cogge rs Cot tage River Te ise TP 4 Lydw ells Victoria Osbou rne H ouse Rope EN 12 Cricket Ground El 41.5m Sub Sta PO Posts EN 7 to EN 17 Recreation Ground FB Mill Cottage B 2100 EN 18 The M ill Hou se

STREET Rose OSSR 1 The Broadway car park will also be retained in Horse and Gro om HIGH Hickmot t Riversid e Hou se The Tanho use 1

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1 to 7 Play Area Brook Tel Ex

Tan yard Cottag es accordance with the Public Car Park Development 9 OSSR 1 15 45.4m EN 18 PEAR SE PLAC E21 to 27 29 8 Pumping Station Murlingden The 35 Vicara ge 10 Management Policy (TP4). Chape l

Hill Springrose EN 18 Lind isfarne Bankside

47 136000 136000 5 Rosebank 6 Walsynghams Hollyban k The Oast 4 57.1m 61 59 Sewage Works

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Spray H ill EN 7 TOWN Sunnybank

High Oaks The Mount Farm St Mary's (C of E) EN 18 Primary School

Stable EN 7 Policy AL/LA1 – Land to the west of Spray Hill 71.8m

EN 7 This site is proposed to be allocated for The M ount OSSR 1 Chapel Down House

EN 7 80.8m approximately 25-30 dwellings and the Vineyard Teaselwood Barn

Magpie Shaw SAN D R OAD

The Old D own St ores safeguarding of land for the future expansion of EN 7

SPR AY H ILL We st Ba rn EN 7 Tutty's

Ridge Farm Spring Shaw

Furnace Farm Manor Dow n Car Park EN 7 Lamberhurst Primary School. The central area Gordons LA 1 83.7m Pumping

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Jay Cottage 88.7m Peter Pa n Wo odbine Invicta House GP Stone Cottages Down Farmhouse 87.4m of the site allocation is to also be retained as a Down Farm Oasts B 2169 Cott High LANE Firs Inglenook Ridgewa y FUR NAC E LANE Belm ont

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Ap ple Tree We ste rmain The Sw an Merlins Dormers Long View (Inn) 76.6m Autumn nCherito Adam Peppermills Wayside Hilldene FUR NAC E

Lodge Romne y AVENU E landscape buffer to prevent coalescence between 12 Sunnymead Down Farm Barn

Qua rry DOWN Marlpit Brow n Granary 7 135500 EN 12 (PH) Down Farm 135500 Coptha ll EN 7 Farm EN 7 Cra ntock Misty Meadow Farm Elmore Cottage the main settlement of Lamberhurst and The Down. Surgery An gle fie ld Twitten Cottage Tan k House

Cattery Spray Hill Farm Residential development is to therefore only be 79.1m

The D own Ten nis Co urt EN 12 EN 12 EN 12 ViewWhisketts Farthing located on the southern part of the site. Coptha ll Wood EN 7 Yew Tree

LA 2 B2 169 87.9m Littledo wn Mons Cot tages The C ro ft Farm Ho use 82.1m

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Lyndh urst EN 7 Policy AL/LA2 – Misty Meadow, Furnace Lane Pond EN 7 Orchard House Greenfields Norton Green L ane

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Link H ouse EN 17 WISEACRE 74.7m Track EN 7 This site is proposed to be allocated for Lowfield EN 17 Whiskett's Pa th (u m) Slade House EN 12

Pippins Ruffets Cottage We st View Be dwyn C ottage Goldings Barn Glenda le Ford

Taitimu approximately 25-30 dwellings with the land to the Pelverers Farm

Hazeldene EN 12 Tan gle wood Whiskett's Farm A2 1 south as indicated on the draft Policies Map to be Sm ugglers Slade Lavender

The Ruffets 135000 135000

Wo odlands retained as a landscape buffer that is to be used for EN 7 Fardle Slade Oasts Peach Tre e

Bourne Toll Wo od 75.9m Trea so n Sweet

Wo odland agricultural purposes. Development will therefore Highfields Farm EN 7 Old Farm House only take place on the northern part of the site. Pa th

EN 7 EN 12 LB CR It is expected that there will be a single point of Markwick's Wood Toll Ga te 83.5m HOG HOLE LANE EN 7 EN 7

Co Const Bdy Woodlands Farm access from Furnace Lane, using the existing track Slade Wood Hoghole Wood leading into the western edge of the site. All of the Plan lies with the High CH Ponds Weald AONB (EN 21) Und

Wo odsid e Consideration will also be given as to whether EN 7 0 0.175 0.35 0.7 1.05 1.4 there is a requirement for additional traffic calming Kilometers measures along Furnace Lane. The Public Right of © Crown Copyright and database rights 2019 Ordnance Survey 100024298 Map Dated: September 2019 Way (WT383) to the west of the site is expected to be protected and enhanced.

For full details of site allocations, and policy requirements, see the Draft Local Plan Goudhurst Parish including Kilndown, Iden Green and

Goudhurst Neighbourhood Development Plan Goudhurst is producing a Neighbourhood Development Plan. The Council has been liaising and working with Goudhurst Draft Policies Map - Inset Map 23

the Neighbourhood Plan Group on the emerging Branfold Barn

Tank Neighbourhood Development Plan. This has included EN 7 Ladham House

Lidwells Barn arranging and attending workshops, and reviewing The Gill The Stables Lidwells Issues Isted

Lidwells Cottage content of the draft Neighbourhood Development Plan 73.3m Grange Farm Corner EN 7

B 2084 when/where requested. Gullivers Evergood EN 7

Little Orchard Esmond Cottage The Council will continue to work with the York Villas Grange Garden Cottage CG Trowswell Hill

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Willow Cottage

Neighbourhood Plan Group in the coming months. 138500 138500

Rose House Spring Lad ham Cottage

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LIDW ELLS Policy STR 9: Neighbourhood Plans, and the supporting Ladham Oast House 75.3m Ladham Farm 75.5m The Grange text to this, is on pages 59-60 of the Draft Local Plan. Lodge Nursery Upper Lawn The House Trottenden Oast Tulip Tree 91.7m

Azalea Cottage Little Trottenden Crayden Beech Cottage Welches LOVERS Trowswell Cottages

The Retreat

Trowswell

The Oaks 67.3m

Policy STR/GO1 – Strategy for Goudhurst Parish Fahrenhurst 4 58.9m 64.3m St Cubys

LB NORTHROAD Two sites are proposed to be allocated for development, BLIND LANE

Tara providing approximately 21-26 new dwellings, of which EN 7

Upper Crowbourne Parkview 11 (net additional) already have planning permission. Garden Cottage Ratcliffe 105.7m

Russetts

All Ways

The ‘Limits to Built Development’ around the main built- 4a

Pine-Lee EN 7 Morebreddis Cottages Lindens Highview Chestnuts Fir Three Winds Tattlebury Cottage Bank up area are proposed to be amended accordingly. EN 18 5 Church Rose Cottage TATTLEBURY Sylvanna Bay Tree 8

Appledowne Willow Lodge Middle The Presbytery BERESFORD ROAD Pilgrims Tree Pinecroft Delaware Primrose Cottage Pavilion EN 18 Cotts OSSR 1 2 The Balcombes Hill car park will also be retained in B 2079 Wanderwood The Lodge Pleasant Pl EN 18 Chequer's Stony Bank Allotment Cottages Chapel Gardens Oak View

138000 EN 17 138000 120.9m Jetwell Beech House Loxley Chapel Ho Old School accordance with the Public Car Park Development EN 17 Oak Tattlebury Cottage 14 The Spinney Gallery Goldwell Brentwood A262 Fairlop Crowswell Path (um) Redlands Oleandor 121.6m CRANBROOK ROAD Stony Lane The Garden Benyons EN 17 The Eastwell Arcady Pethrick The Finesse Dunstable Management Policy (TP4). Churchills Ropewalk Track Ex The Northdown The Heathers Blackmans Rosseda Teise View Mill Cloth Goud Cottage Little Devenish Moorfield Edge Maypole Purbeck Lilacs Wealden View EN 18 Dovorian The Old Stables Baan Mai East

108.6m Glebe EN 7 Bram bles CHURCH The Bramlings Buddleias Old Yard EN Weavers South Torvalla 124.5m

Yew Tree Cott Sunnyside 1 6 House A 262 7 EN 17 Lamberts Fair 3 Clantyre Goudhurst Inn B2084 Provision will also be made for community facilities The Omega Beechurst BEAMAN CLOSE Terracotta Grand View Lime House Cliefden (PH) Little Barden 121.1m Quetlaw Playing Field 119.9m NORTH EN 18 Queen Anne's Cliffe Kestrel Villas Path St Mary's Church El Sub Sta including a Scout Hut and the expansion of the village Holly Church House Mayfield House Tylers EN 18 Barn ManorHouse Electricity

Manor Cottage EN 12 Distribution Site Tranquil The Stores Augusta House Pharmacy Oakley Black Swan Hall Vicarage Holly House Hunts EN 17 OSSR 1 Goudhurst & Kilndown Culpepper 3 4 Little Cott PH hall, as well as allotments, amenity/natural green space, 120.1m Merredene Bakery Star and Eagle Mews El Daintree Spyway Scotney Rose Sub Church Room Pedlers End Villa Sta Trundles OSSR 1 BACK LANE The Old Bank Alexandra Ho Paynetts House Vine HIGHBruton STREET House Shepherds Lawn EN 17 EN 12 Hotel Eight Bells Barn Maypole Cottages Paynetts Fountain parks and recreation grounds, children’s play space and PO Farm 115.5m Ho War Club Meml The Old Burial Ground GO 2 TCB EN 7 Smithy EN 17 Fair Mead Forge Trough Rooftops Burfields Laurels THE PLAIN youth play space. Garage

The Mews Goudhurst Knowle Amberley Ainslie 114.1m EN Surgery Pinehurst The Bungalow Stable Rootes 18 WEST ROAD Hall Spindles Old Parsonage EN 18 West No proposed site allocations are proposed at Kilndown, MAYPOLE LANE The Bricklayer Tel Wallfield EN 12 Clay Hill Stable Cottage Pleasent Wall-Pond Mount Field View PC

Hillside Cottages THE OLD SCHOOL Ridge Windy Goudhurst, although additional housing may be 7 EN 18 GO 1

Hillside TP 4 BALCOMBES Rose Cott April Cott Clay Old March Cott Stables delivered through redevelopment of appropriate sites. Carolyn South View Deanery Terrace Balcombe Cottages Lower Brays Hyland Cedar Kingfishers 11 The 9 13 White Maples EN 17 Hatch

HIGH Clayhill Farm RIDGE The ‘Limits to Built Development’ at Kilndown, has been CLAYHILL 98.0m John Stacey Heights MARY DAY'S

18 Maypole Barn

28 Trigg's Farm 137500 137500 LURKINS RISE removed as this settlement has limited key facilities and 15 EN 17 23 30

Rosamonde WAY Bone Hole Wood ESS Triggs Oast

BANKFIELD CULPEPERS EN 7 bus services making it unsustainable in this context. 37 40 12 Maypolme Far White's Farm House 17 20 24 21

32 EN 7 26 EN 17 33 48 LURKINS RISE 42 68 56 47 to 58 78 31 25 Penny Cott 50 70

84 EN 17 Lizard Cott 75.1m

EN 17 Underhill

Willow

Pond ROAD FB Goudhurst Tanks BEDGEBURY

Sewage Works

Triggs Barn Whitestocks Cottages

Builders Yard EN 7 Barnfield Shaw High Weald Twin Gables Timbers Policy AL/GO1 – Land east of Balcombes Hill and Yeomans

adjacent to Tiddymotts Lane 57.1m This site is proposed to be allocated for approximately 10-15 dwellings and is currently subject to a planning

Whitestocks Farm application (19/00280) for 14 dwellings. It is expected 137000 EN 7 Whitestocks 137000 GP EN 47.5m 7 that there will be provision of a single point of access EN 7 Orchard Cottage from Balcombes Hill that utilises the existing access Orchard House EN 7 located to the north of the site. It is expected that opportunities will be explored for

delivering additional public parking for the village on 39.9m this site. All of the Plan lies with the High Ponds Ferret Pit Wood Weald AONB (EN 21) EN 7 EN 7

0 0.125 0.25 0.5 0.75 1 Policy AL/GO2 – Land at Triggs Farm, Cranbrook Road Kilometers

This site is proposed to be allocated for approximately © Crown Copyright and database rights 2019 Ordnance Survey 100024298 Map Dated: September 2019 12 (11 net additional) dwellings, in accordance with an existing planning consent on this site, with a single point of access from Cranbrook Road.

For full details of site allocations, and policy requirements, see the Draft Local Plan Goudhurst Parish including Kilndown, Iden Green and Curtisden Green

Kilndown Draft Policies Map - Inset Map 24 EN 7 EN 7 Path (um) Rised en Cottage

Gateho use

Marigolds Rised en Meadowside Meadow 63.7m Hillside Issues

Twysden Broadham Wood EN 7 LB Stable 70.6m 64.7m

Cattle Grid The Old Sch ool House ED Bdy

82.3m Kilndown, Iden Green and Curtisden Green EN 7

Footb ridge No proposed site allocations are proposed at Kilndown, RANTERS LANE

The Co ach House Iden Green or Curtisden Green, although additional Drain 91.1m

Kilndown House housing may be delivered through redevelopment of CR appropriate sites.

EN 12 Pond The ‘Limits to Built Development’ at Kilndown, has been removed as this settlement has limited key facilities and 135500 135500

The B arn bus services making it unsustainable in this context. Hillside Farm

98.3m EN 7

The Globe and Rainbow (PH) EN 17 Playing Field Kilndown Wood The Rainbow Forge The Glo be Kilndown OSSR 1 EN 7 Forgehou se EN 7 Wind Crouch's Wood Wood 106.6m Pavilion

Ca ndlewood TCB Pondside Cottage Kilnwood Quarry House Tower EN 7 Ambledown

2 Tumbleweed Old Post Office Stonelea

Kilndown Old Spring EN 17 Steeple House Scho ol Cottag e School EN 18 Lych Gate Du nwurkin EN 7

ROGERS ROUGH ROAD EN 17 The Gables St Michael Bra mley Gable Cottage Ro semary Cottage EN 12 Cinch ona Ch urch EN Holly Cottage Jasmin Cotta ge Higgler Sewage Works Highdown Magnolia Cottage 112.0m 18 Tanks Ch urch Cottages Moonrakers

4 Blackbe rry WES T ROAD Co ttage

112.9m Church Farm Summerhill

Beckets Ch arlwood Re creatio n

Ground Little Orc h ard West Row Co ttages EN 17

The Old Chapel Play Area OSSR 1 Shearnfold 1 80.1m

Woodside Path

9 8 5 Chapel Field EN 18 The Old Vicarage 135000 135000 16

87.6m 13 BERES FORD CLOS7 E

10 Kildown Wood 12 El S ub Sta Oaks Rogers Rough EN 7 17 71.5m 6

21 ViewNo rthwoo d White s Co tswold Quince

Ellwood 3 Pro vidence 100.3m De ne CHICKS LANE No Vine The Ch imneys Co ppers

Wynsdale 109.5m Mopes De n 116.9m Aspe nshaw

Ch icks Farm Sherne Oak Tree

Lambsd own Invicta Three Ways Ho use

Stone Villa

The Firs High Rede Shernfold Oast

Do wn House

118.0m

May Farm

Evan den Farm

EN 7

EN 7

CHURCH ROAD

Tra ck 134500 134500

Shearnfold Wood Ch alybeate Spring

103.6m

EN 12

Beeches

Poultry Fa rm ENAll 12 of the Plan lies with the High ENWeald 12 AONB (EN 21) EN 7

0 0.1 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 Kilometers

© Crown Copyright and database rights 2019 Ordnance Survey 100024298 Map Dated: September 2019

For full details of site allocations, and policy requirements, see the Draft Local Plan Draft Local Plan Public Consultation Tunbridge Wells Borough Council is currently The draft document contains a proposed preparing a Local Plan, which will guide future development strategy for future development, development in our borough up to the year 2036. proposed site allocations and policies against which future development proposals and We are consulting on the second stage in planning applications will be assessed. this process, the Draft Local Plan (Regulation 18), for six weeks from Friday 20 September to 5pm on Friday 1 November 2019. This is a further opportunity for you to have a say in the preparation of our Local Plan. The Borough Council will host a series of exhibitions during the consultation period. The dates and venues for these are as follows:

Date Venue Times

Capel Community Centre, Saturday 21 September 10am–2pm Falmouth Place, TN12 6RD Main Hall, Mascalls School, Tuesday 24 September 4.30pm–8pm Maidstone Road, Paddock Wood TN12 6LT Royal Victoria Place Shopping Centre, Thursday 26 September 12pm–7pm Tunbridge Wells (exhibition space on Level 1) Vestry Hall, The Old Fire Station, Friday 27 September 4pm–7pm Stone Street, Cranbrook TN17 3HF Royal Victoria Place Shopping Centre, Saturday 28 September 10am–3pm Tunbridge Wells (exhibition space on Level 1) Royal British Legion Unity Hall, Monday 30 September 4pm–7pm High Street, Hawkhurst TN18 4AG Horsmonden Village Hall, Tuesday 1 October 4pm–7pm 7 Back Lane, Horsmonden TN12 8LQ Village Hall, Wednesday 2 October 4pm–7pm 49 High Street, Pembury TN2 4PH Main Hall, Mascalls School, Thursday 3 October 4.30pm–8pm Maidstone Road, Paddock Wood TN12 6LT Lamberhurst Village Hall, Friday 4 October 4pm–7pm The Broadway, Lamberhurst TN3 8DA

Find more information at: tunbridgewells.gov.uk/localplan tunbridgewells-consult.objective.co.uk