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Councillors back a Sevenoaks parking charge freeze from April 2027, with cash phased out and a weekend charge at Gordon Road. Cabinet decides on 20 October.
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Sevenoaks
Pride & Prejudice goes Wild West at The Stag, 7 and 8 Nov
A line-dancing Pride & Prejudice plays The Stag, Sevenoaks, three times on 7 and 8 November. Tickets £35 plus a £1.50 fee, and there are no fixed seats.
Community
Greatness Pavilion up for grabs: ideas due 31 December
The old Greatness football pavilion is free and Sevenoaks Town Council wants ideas by 31 December. What is inside, what it won't allow, how to bid.
Planning
West Kingsdown Traveller pitch allowed on appeal for 3 years
An inspector has quashed the council's enforcement notice at St Clere Hill Road and granted a 3-year, one-family permission, citing a shortage of pitches.
Planning
Four towns oppose CIL cut, want levy kept up to 149 homes
Sevenoaks, Swanley, Edenbridge and Westerham town councils have jointly objected to ending the levy on schemes of 10+ homes, citing developer cash left unspent.
Sevenoaks
Sevenoaks gets £260,000 for new signs linking bus and rail
Kent has given Sevenoaks Town Council £260,000 for signs linking the High Street, the station and the bus station, with £51,225 added by the town council.
Licensing
Swanley petrol station bids to sell alcohol 24 hours a day
Swanley Service Station on London Road wants to sell alcohol round the clock and hot food overnight. Six neighbours object; councillors decide on 8 October.
Otford
Hospices of Hope, Otford: 35 years marked with a carnival
The Otford charity behind hospice care in Romania and five other countries turns 35. Carnival on 10 October, board games at its bistro, then a wreath workshop.
Planning
Broke Hill refusal: developer asks for government call-in
Quinn Estates wants the Secretary of State to call in its 660-home Broke Hill scheme after councillors refused it against officer advice. What it says, and why.
Community
Sevenoaks in Bloom wins three golds at Wisley awards
Sevenoaks won three Gold awards at South & South East in Bloom on 25 September, and the House in the Basement youth café was rated Outstanding.
Planning
Kemsing: nine more homes sought beside Childsbridge site
A second bid, for up to nine homes on Green Belt farmland off Childsbridge Lane, was lodged 18 days after seven were approved next door. Comments close 9 Oct.
Council
New Ash Green wheelie bins: no lorries in garage courts
New Ash Green bins must go out in pink roadside zones from 12 October, as bin lorries stop entering garage courts. The rules, and the village's objections.
Crime
Westerham robbery inquiry: four arrests, 300 items seized
Four arrests and more than 300 exhibits seized, including weapons and suspected cloned plates, after an attempted motorbike theft in Westerham's Market Square.
Sevenoaks Online covers the town and the villages around it, from Otford and Kemsing to Westerham, Edenbridge and Swanley. We report the local news that comes off the public record, planning decisions, crime figures, council spending and house prices, so you can see what is actually changing in the district, and we keep the everyday information you look up again and again accurate and easy to find: when your bin is collected, where to park, what your council tax band costs, and how long the train to London really takes.
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