Tesco have submitted four planning applications for the Kelsey Arms site. The supermarket does not need planning permission for the change of use from a pub to a shop. However they are planning to extend the ground floor and convert the first floor to three flats. Eight parking spaces are proposed for shoppers at the […]

As part of the process of determining where future growth happens in Tunbridge Wells and Southborough up until 2026, a draft document has been prepared by Tunbridge Wells Borough Council. This is out for consultation until May 24th. In the coming week there are exhibitions as part of this consultation at Monday 15 April   […]

Out of the blue, Tory controlled Tunbridge Wells Borough Council is proposing that part of the green at South View Road and Holmewood Road be used to build six semi detached homes. Access is suggested to be from Holmewood Road. The land to be used is designated as recreational land under the Local Plan. The […]

Tunbridge Wells Borough Council will begin consulting on two planning documents, for eight weeks from Monday 14 June till Monday 9 August 2010. The two documents are the Town Centres Area Action Plan which includes Tunbridge Wells and Southborough town centres and the Allocations Development Plan Document which is designed to allocate sites for a […]

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 […]

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 […]

The planning application to erect seven houses at The Haven and land rear of Veryan in Vauxhall Lane has been withdrawn by the applicant.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 […]