Sevenoaks District Local Plan
What is the Local Plan?
Sevenoaks District Council (SDC) has drafted a new Local Plan – an important document that sets out what can be built and where between 2027 and 2042. It includes sites put forward by landowners and developers to meet the Government’s new housing target of 17,460 houses that must be built over the lifetime of the Local Plan. As well as new homes, the Local Plan includes proposals to support the economy by protecting business space and high streets and the provision of new infrastructure such as schools, shops, health centres and improved local transport.
Throughout the process of developing The Plan, SDC has put the proposals out for public consultation at various regulation stages. The District Council publishes all consultation documents, manages the formal response process, and collects feedback from residents, businesses, and organisations across the district. Edenbridge Town Council, like other town and parish councils, community groups, and individual residents, is able to participate as a consultee in this process. This involves reviewing the proposals and submitting our own formal response to SDC. Although we are not involved in running or managing the Regulation consultations, we have hosted several drop-in sessions for residents to find out more about the proposals and how they could put forward their views.
Our role is to represent Edenbridge’s interests by providing detailed feedback on how the proposed policies and site allocations might affect our town and its residents. We work closely with a planning consultant to examine the documents and prepare our responses. You can view our responses to previous consultations below.
Regulation 19 consultation – 23 July to 17 September 2026
This is the final opportunity to have your say before the Local Plan is submitted for examination by the Planning Inspectorate.
Regulation 19 Questions and Answers 2026
View latest Plan and submit your response in Reg 19 consultation
Timetable
By the end of 2026, SDC intends to submit the Local Plan for examination by the Planning Inspectorate. This submission will include all the comments made during the Regulation 19 publication.
The timetable for the examination, which will include public hearings, will be set by the Planning Inspectorate. The examination is expected to take place in 2027.
If the Planning Inspectorate concludes the Local Plan is sound, the Council will adopt it, and it will be used to help determine planning applications.
Previous consultations
Regulation 18 (Part 3) – Town Council’s response – December 2025
Phase 3 of the Regulation 18 consultation ran from 23 October to 11 December 2025.
Town Council response to Regulation 18 (Part 3) – December 2025
Edenbridge Infrastructure Delivery Plan (Proposal to support growth proposed within the Regulation 18 (phase 3) Local Plan)
Regulation 18 – Town Council’s response
Edenbridge Town Council is a statutory consultee and as such, responded to Sevenoaks District Council’s Regulation 18 (Phase 1 and 2) consultation on its draft of the Plan in 2023 and 2024.
Town Council response to Regulation 18 (Part 1) consultation – January 2023
Supplementary information to Regulation 18 (Part 1) Questions
Town Council response to Regulation 18 (Part 2) consultation – January 2024
Regulation 18 (Part 2)
This continued to focus on development opportunities in built up areas but also proposed potential Green Belt land for development including sites in Edenbridge such as Breezehurst Farm and Crouch House Road.
Councillors agreed to engage a planning consultant to ensure we submitted the best possible representation for Edenbridge. Overall, the Council believes that the amount of additional Green Belt proposed for release around Edenbridge, when taken together with already committed Green Belt release, is excessive and disproportionate when compared to other towns in the district such as Sevenoaks and Swanley.
The Council supports certain sites for development, such as Edenbridge War Memorial Hospital and Leathermarket. However, the Council objects to certain development proposals, such as Breezehurst Farm, where it considers that the scale of housing development and the release of the site would represent an excessive level of growth for Edenbridge during the plan period, when considered together with Green Belt development already committed and other Green Belt sites around the town also proposed for release.
In March 2024 the Town Council wrote a further letter to Sevenoaks District Council regarding Pedham Place: Letter to SDC re Pedham Place.