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News Homes rethink puts plan on hold
TONBRIDGEand Malling Council has received 200 submissions after asking landowners,developers and local communities to identify pos- sible sites for development. The borough’s planning director
Steve Humphrey said the “healthy response” has meant that the process of assessing the proposed areas, thatwas scheduled to be com- plete by autumn, is taking longer than anticipated. The council is in the early stages of preparing a local plan which will ad- dress the projected need for housing
and jobs over the next 15 years, al- though land suggested through the call for sitesmaynot necessarily end up being included. The next stage has now been put back for about nine months. Planning consultant G L Hearn, commissioned by Tonbridge and Malling Council, to carry out an in- dependent assessment to guide the plan, originally suggested a target of 13,000 new homes by 2031, but this has now been updated to 13,300. Mr Humphrey said the increase was due to the Government updat-
ing its assumptions for birth, death and net migration rates. “The latter includes migration between other areas in London and the South East as well as international migration and reflects the fact that Tonbridge and Malling is recognised as an at- tractive place to live,” he said. Thenewfigures also identified the
need for 462 additional care home bed spaces over the plan period. The employment land review for
the borough has also been updated in the light of the population projec- tions. Mr Humphrey said sufficient
land had been allocated to meet fu- ture needs but there was an imbal- ance between sites for office use and for other employment types. The council was also awaiting an Environment Agency review of flood risk areas, which had been de- layed until March 2015. Because of the delaying factors
and the possibility of further plan- ning changes following the general election in May, councillors agreed to postpone the first round of public consultation on the plan until next summer.
Marathon effort raises defibrillator cash Surgery role
A DEFIBRILLATOR has been installed at Snodland Town Council's office inWaghorn Road thanks to the efforts of Georgina Nicolettos, constituency assistant toMP Tracey Crouch, who raised £2,570 when she completed the London Marathon. Ms Crouch, borough and town councillors,
representatives fromCardiac Science, British Heart Foundation volunteers, council staff members and Georgina's familywatched her cut the ribbon. Georgina, of Edgeler Court, Snodland and
whose family own Andrews Fish Bar in the High Street, said: "Iamreally pleased to have secured this life-saving equipment formy home town.”
Anne Moloney, chairman of the town council with Georgina Nicolettos and MP Tracey Crouch
VOLUNTEERS arewanted to join a patient participation group (PPG) at Snodland Surgery in Catts Alley. From April next year every GP surgery in England will have to have a PPG. The group in Snodland began in 2011 and works with GPs and the practice team. It is looking for residents and groups from the local community to join. Anybody interested should send
a short statement of interest with their name, address, telephone number and email address to the surgery at Catts Alley, Snodland ME6 5SN.
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