The planning application for the controversial night shelter for the homeless at St. John’s Methodist Church has now been submitted. To see the plans click here. The detailed plans can be found under the “Associated Documents” section. Southborough Town Council is a consultee on these plans and will consider its comments at its Planning and […]

If you thought that the mobile phone companies had installed all the masts that they needed think again. Vodafone have submitted proposals for a new 12 metre mobile phone mast on land at London Road opposite Harland Way. The submission to Tunbridge Wells Borough Council is a telecommunication application. The planners will have to decide […]

In the Courier newspaper it has been reported that the idea of putting recycling bins on the site of the derelict Pennington Road toilets has been resurrected by Tunbridge Wells Borough Council. Three years ago the idea of placing facilities for bottle and can recycling at this site was rejected by Southborough Town Council after […]

Kent County Council has lost £50 million in investments made in Icelandic financial institutions. £16 million has come from the staff pension fund, £8 million was in school reserves and £2 million was Kent Fire Authority money. The rest of the money was made up of council tax and government grants. Kent Tories are saying […]

The long running saga of planning applications in Still Lane, off London Road, continues with the latest application being turned down by the Borough Council. In 2006 an application for a terrace of three town houses and a block of four flats was given approval. The latest plans added another town house to the approved […]

Tunbridge Wells Borough Council is consulting on a Draft Air Quality Action Plan for the Air Quality Management Area created in 2005. This was set up in response to poor air quality along the A26 London Road. It starts from between its junctions with Pennington Road and Park Road and goes right into Tunbridge Wells. […]

The planning application to erect seven houses at The Haven and land rear of Veryan in Vauxhall Lane has been withdrawn by the applicant. The Town Council when consulted on these plans said that they should be refused on the grounds that it was an over intensive use of site and that the infrastructure was inadequate […]