Appeal: Major mixed-use scheme in Sevenoaks lambasted for green belt harm

A major mixed-use scheme in Sevenoaks has been rejected after an inspector attacked the proposal for fundamentally harming green belt policy.
Please sign up or log in using the form below to read the rest of this article.
FEATURES
-
Marc Vlessing is a man in the middle – the chief executive and co-founder of a developer who wants to balance the competing social, political and cultural forces that make planning and building such an arduous task in the UK, as he explains to Simon Wicks
-
Trumpington Meadows was marketed as a well-designed, nature-centred, active-travel focused, community-friendly approach to development. Ten years after the first residents moved in, Rachel Masker asks whether it can be considered to have met its goals
-
The idealistic impulse of the ‘new town’ is being lost as time takes its toll and memories fade. Researcher Su Fitzpatrick is dedicated to recalling and preserving its original spirit, while ringing the changes of a great social and planning experiment
TOP JOBS
TOP NEWS