Local Plan Update
​East Malling Conservation Group Supports
​Parish Council Campaign to Save the Green Belt Extension

EMCG supported East Malling & Larkfield Parish Council's campaign to extend the Green Belt to protect land between East Malling and West Malling, including the agricultural fields at Forty Acres and Broadwater Farm. The extension would protect the setting of the historic market town of West Malling and prevent East Malling and West Malling joining up with Kings Hill in the south and Larkfield in the north in one large conurbation

The proposed Green Belt extension is shown edged in yellow on the above map (reproduced with kind permission of the Parish Council).  Forty Acres is shown edged in red towards the north with site of proposed development at Broadwater Farm marked in red towards the south. Now that the Local Plan process has hit the buffers and the Forty Acres Appeal has been allowed, we wait to see what to see how TMBC decide to proceed.

Tonbridge & Malling Borough Council's Local Plan
Regulation 19 Consultation

Further back in the Local Plan process, EMCG sent in a  Regulation 19 Consultation Petition.  We thank everyone who signed it and/or sent in letters to TMBC.  
TMBC submitted the draft Plan and comments on it to the Planning Inspector in January 2019 but as widely reported the process has come to a grinding halt and the future of the draft plan is very uncertain.

You can read our formal response to the Regulation 19 Consultation  via the following links:
Policy LP11 Designated Areas: Green Belt
Policy LP25 Housing Allocations: Traffic, Heritage Assets
Policy LP30 Strategic Site - Broadwater Farm, north of Kings Hill: Traffic, Heritage Assets, Green Belt
Policy LP36 Employment Land Allocations: Traffic
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How You Helped
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Thank you to everyone who came along to our special Local Plan Meeting  in  November 2019.  We hope you found it useful.

Thank you also to everyone who signed our Petition.  You can read the petition here  

You may also be interested to read the response from West Malling Parish Council which, along with issues relating to the Green Belt and Broadwater Farm etc also looks at the issues of parking in the town and the need to maintain a GP Surgery in West Malling.  

If you wish to review the Local Plan itself you will find on TMBC's website alongside all the other related documentation - click here to go to the relevant TMBC webpage

​If you are not a member of EMCG we would encourage you to join us.  Click here to visit our membership page

By the Community, for the Community