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Single Pages Newsletterfor Website.Pub 1 The Sevenoaks Society for the conservation and improvement of the town December 2015 www.sevenoakssociety.org.uk 2 President Sir Michael Harrison Vice Presidents AS Ford, R Harcourt, E Keys, M Nairne, Mrs A Rogers, P Rogers, BA Walker Committee Chairman Vice-Chairman Publicity Officer DAVID GAMBLE JOHN EDGE KEITH WADE Little Brittains, 15, The Drive Little Finches Brittains Lane Sevenoaks TN12 2AB Morleys Road Sevenoaks TN13 2JW 01732 454752 Sevenoaks Weald TN14 6QY 01732 458898 01732 451223 Honorary Treasurer Honorary Secretary Newsletter Editor RICHARD BAXTER TIM PEARCE MAREE WALKER 7, The Drive Flat 3 Clarendon Court Ormiston East Sevenoaks TN13 3AB 9 Granville Road Brittains Lane 01732 460326 Sevenoaks TN13 1ES Sevenoaks TN13 2NF 01732 465110 01732 458456 Further Committee Members Peter Bennellick Roger FitzGerald RIBA Charles George David Green Nicholas White 3 Index INTRODUCTION Tim Pearce 4 CHAIRMAN ’S REPORT David Gamble 5 FRANK M ARSHALL A WARD John Edge 7 LOCAL L IST REPORT Michael Harrison 11 TREE E XHIBITIONS Keith Wade 14 TOWNSCAPE AND P LANNING G ROUP Tim Pearce 21 WALKS Nick White 24 TALKS Phyllis Styles 25 CONSERVATION C OUNCIL Charles George 26 MEMBERSHIP R EPORT Tim Pearce 27 BOOK R EVIEW Tim Pearce 27 4 INTRODUCTION Maree Walker is taking time-out in moving to East Anglia next year and Australia on this edition and we we wish them all good wishes for thank her most warmly for her work their future there. on the Newsletter over the last few Both were warmly thanked at the years. Our guest editor is Victoria AGM in October, and the details of Baxter and thanks to her for the new appointments and the new stepping in. The copy has been committee can be found in the collated by the Secretary. Chairman’s report. We are always enormously grateful Please note the comments on p.27 to all those who volunteer to help about subscriptions. Most members running the Sevenoaks Society and are punctilious in paying their this year we must give special thanks subscriptions, but some fifty or so of to Peter Moss and to Phyllis Styles, you, who are paying by Standing who have been stalwart supporters Order have not put your payments for many years. Peter Moss has been up to meet the new costs. We will be Chairman of the Townscape and writing to you individually. Planning Group and has been leading our opinions on development In this edition, we publish a report proposals with great skill and insight. from Keith Wade on the continuing His understanding of good urban success of the Tree Exhibition held at design was always to the forefront Knole in 2014. This year, it has been and especially in 2014, when we shown to the public at Riverhill were engaged with SDC on all the House and Lullingstone and privately issues relating to parking. We wish as part of an educational programme Peter and Cherry, also a former at the New School at West Heath. Committee member, all the best in The Exhibition has been a great the future. success for the Society and we thank Keith most warmly for his enormous Phyllis Styles has managed the dedication to it. Please let us know if membership list with great care and there are other venues where it attention for many years. This is not would be welcome in the future. an easy job as our members, bless them, do not always tell us when We are always on the look-out for they have moved, nor do they new members of the Committee. If remember to put up their you would like to make a fuller subscription by standing order to commitment to running the Society meet any rises which may occur. please contact David Gamble. Phyllis and her husband will be Tim Pearce 5 CHAIRMAN ’S R EPORT Committee Changes Burrow, who has been our At the AGM there were representative on the Sevenoaks several changes to the Executive Town Centre Partnership also stood Committee. Tim Pearce, at his down at the AGM and again we are request, relinquished the Vice very grateful for all her efforts on Chairman position and has taken up the Society’s behalf. the role of Honorary Secretary with special responsibilities for Recruitment and how you can help membership and the website. He will We have seen numbers rise still retain his position on the slightly over the last few months Townscape and Planning Group which is due in large part to the (TPG) providing continuity and wise efforts of Keith Wade and the Tree advice. My thanks to him especially Exhibition team. Please think who for all his help over the last 6 years. amongst your friends have an The Vice Chairmanship has now interest in the conservation and passed to John Edge who is a improvement of the town and chartered surveyor by profession encourage them to join. It is not a and who will also take on the great deal of money to find and it Chairmanship of the TPG. John has helps us fund our activities. The been on the committee for 6 years, more members we have the more and has been responsible since its notice we can command. Our work inception for the Frank Marshall on the Local List places us in the award and for getting us forefront of Kent civic societies and sponsorship. He is one of the local with more members we can do even list volunteers and I am delighted he better. has accepted the Vice Chairman post. Tree Exhibitions (see pp 14-20) We sadly say goodbye to a Keith Wade and Victoria long-standing membership secretary Granville-Baxter’s most successful in Phyllis Styles who has been a great exhibition the Remarkable Trees of support to the Society in this Sevenoaks continued to draw important role as well as her crowds at Riverhill House, and then reporting of the Society’s events. Lullingstone Castle. Finally it was set Peter Moss, the previous chair of the up at the New School at West Heath TPG is also leaving the committee for the benefit of the pupils and was and again our thanks to him for all greatly appreciated. Our thanks to his efforts especially on the more the volunteers who moved the contentious planning issues. Pauline exhibition stands and boards from 6 CHAIRMAN ’S R EPORT ( CONT ’D) venue to venue like a travelling the Oakeley Walks booklets. The circus and to David Checkley and complete revision of books 1-4 Colin from the Baptist Church and should be available next year. the use of the Vine Evangelical Van. Local List (see pp 12-13) The end of the first tranche is in sight and we expect to be able to deliver the results of two years of researching, surveying and selecting to Sevenoaks District Council in the first quarter of 2016. This will then be taken out to public consultation and a final approval by the Council is Sevenoaks Society stall at the Summer Festival expected by the end of the year. Sevenoaks Town Council has very Events generously again sponsored our Our stall at the Sevenoaks efforts and we are very thankful for Summer Fayre was well attended. their support. Thanks to all those who came to man it during the day. The date next Website year is June 18 th . We had another Our new website has been launched excellent talk from Jonathan Fenner www.sevenoakssociety.co.uk. Please in May (See pp 25). As Steven have look at it and send us your Dedman has resigned from Knole, comments, but please be aware also we invited Anthony Lancaster, Chief that it is still in process of Planning Manager of SDC, to give a development and we are learning talk after the AGM on the planning how best to use it. Some sections are issues confronting Sevenoaks in the incomplete at present. We are most future. This was well-received and grateful to Paul Furth, our prompted many questions. Richard webmaster, for all his advice and Hill, the new Senior Project Manager work. at Knole, will tell us how things are going there on March 2 nd next year. Walks (see pp 24-25) At the time of writing, we are We are grateful as ever to looking forward to welcoming Nicky Nick White for all that he does for Biddall from KCC to tell us about our walks programme and in revising Kentish footpaths. 7 THE F RANK M ARSHALL A WARD 2015 In 2013, an award was created in station foyer, a modernist house memory of the Late Frank Marshall, squeezed into a small gap in the High who single-handedly monitored Street, the transformed rear planning policy, applications and courtyard in The Shambles, an planning conditions in Sevenoaks for extensively modernised house, and - over a quarter of a century, on the winner of the Award - the behalf of the Society and for the extension to The Vine restaurant in benefit of the people of the town. an important gateway location to That Frank has been replaced by a the town and within a sensitive committee of six, the Society’s Conservation Area. Townscape & Planning Group, says it This year, the judging panel was all! The Society wished this to be a made up of Rebecca Lamb, the biennial award to support good recently-appointed local design and town improvement, Conservation Officer and as such an contributing to the townscape over important influence on the town’s the previous two years. landscape, Roger FitzGerald, So, in 2013 and again this year, London-based architect and local members of the Society were invited resident as well as a committee to nominate any improved site, area member of the Society, and myself, a or facet of the town that was chartered surveyor.
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