February 2022 update

Thank you to everyone who engaged with our consultation for the development of Land at Eccles.

We have received a lot of useful feedback during our consultation. We have been carefully considering and incorporating these comments and are pleased to let you know that we have now submitted an Outline Planning Application to Tonbridge and Malling Borough Council (TMBC). You can search for the planning application on the Tonbridge and Malling Borough Council planning portal using reference 22/00113/OAEA.

We were really pleased that so many people took time to look at our proposals, send us their comments and come along to our event. We have received a lot of useful feedback which we have been carefully considering. You can find more information about the submitted plans, as well as the ways in which your feedback has helped shaped them, within this newsletter.

The submitted plans include:

• The development of up to 950 homes
• A local centre with potential commercial / office / retail / community spaces
• A new primary school with space for up to three forms of entry and a nursery
• A wide range of open spaces covering almost 50% of the site
• Replacement of the existing sports pitches and new changing facilities
• Ecological improvement and the protection of local wildlife and habitats
• Safe and convenient walking and cycling routes
• Access to sustainable transport
• New strategic infrastructure, including a spine street through the middle of the site and new vehicular access to the south of the village on Bull Lane and to the north of the village on New Court Road

The submitted masterplan for Land at Eccles