https://sevenoaksonline.co.uk/Local news, what's on and the information you need for Sevenoaks and its villages.en-GBSun, 02 Aug 2026 22:04:42 +0000https://sevenoaksonline.co.uk/sevenoaks-crime-data/https://sevenoaksonline.co.uk/sevenoaks-crime-data/Fri, 31 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000NewsPolice recorded 62 crimes in the Sevenoaks area in June 2026. The full breakdown by crime type, the streets with the most reports, and how to check your own street, from the police.uk open data.https://sevenoaksonline.co.uk/otford-car-park-homes-planning/https://sevenoaksonline.co.uk/otford-car-park-homes-planning/Fri, 31 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000NewsA permission-in-principle bid for up to four homes on a car park behind Otford High Street is the only new housing proposal among 22 planning applications validated across the Sevenoaks district in the week to 31 July 2026.https://sevenoaksonline.co.uk/sevenoaks-bin-collections-6am-heatwave-end-july-2026/https://sevenoaksonline.co.uk/sevenoaks-bin-collections-6am-heatwave-end-july-2026/Tue, 28 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000NewsSevenoaks District Council is again running waste, recycling and food waste collections from 6am, until Friday 31 July 2026, as a fresh hot spell hits. UKHSA has an amber heat-health alert for the South East from 29 to 30 July.https://sevenoaksonline.co.uk/sevenoaks-planning-applications-july-2026/https://sevenoaksonline.co.uk/sevenoaks-planning-applications-july-2026/Sun, 26 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000NewsA 20-metre telecoms monopole at Westerham Bowls Club leads the 38 planning applications validated across the Sevenoaks district in the week to 24 July, alongside new homes at Crockenhill and a warehouse demolition at Otford.https://sevenoaksonline.co.uk/land-east-high-street-40m-loan-approved/https://sevenoaksonline.co.uk/land-east-high-street-40m-loan-approved/Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000NewsSevenoaks councillors have signed off a loan facility of up to £40m with Wates for the Land East of the High Street scheme. An amendment to bring the final agreement back to Council was voted down.https://sevenoaksonline.co.uk/sevenoaks-home-adaptations-mnd-motion/https://sevenoaksonline.co.uk/sevenoaks-home-adaptations-mnd-motion/Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000NewsSevenoaks councillors have committed to press Kent County Council on the speed of disabled facilities grants, after a motion proposed on behalf of Cllr Nicholas Varley, who has been diagnosed with motor neurone disease.https://sevenoaksonline.co.uk/sevenoaks-ev-charging-climate-motion/https://sevenoaksonline.co.uk/sevenoaks-ev-charging-climate-motion/Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000NewsA seven-point Green motion on climate, transport, carbon and water was cut to two commitments before Sevenoaks councillors passed it. What survived, what did not, and the EV charging gap behind it.https://sevenoaksonline.co.uk/sevenoaks-local-plan-consultation-opens/https://sevenoaksonline.co.uk/sevenoaks-local-plan-consultation-opens/Sun, 19 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000NewsThe final public consultation on Sevenoaks District Council's Local Plan opens on Thursday 23 July and runs eight weeks to 17 September. Here is the council's confirmed portal, email and postal address for comments, and how to make yours count.https://sevenoaksonline.co.uk/bradbourne-lakes-festival-success/https://sevenoaksonline.co.uk/bradbourne-lakes-festival-success/Sun, 19 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000What's OnHundreds of people came to Bradbourne Lakes Park in Sevenoaks on 11 July for the free Re-bourne summer festival, where the Mayor helped launch a community time capsule ahead of the £2.1m restoration of the historic lakes.https://sevenoaksonline.co.uk/sevenoaks-district-council-abolished-west-kent-unitary/https://sevenoaksonline.co.uk/sevenoaks-district-council-abolished-west-kent-unitary/Fri, 17 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000NewsThe Government has decided Sevenoaks District Council will be scrapped in 2028 and replaced by a West Kent unitary council covering Sevenoaks, Tonbridge & Malling, Tunbridge Wells and Maidstone. What changes, and when.https://sevenoaksonline.co.uk/sevenoaks-planning-committee-decisions-july-2026/https://sevenoaksonline.co.uk/sevenoaks-planning-committee-decisions-july-2026/Thu, 16 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000NewsSevenoaks councillors went against their own officers on 9 July, saying a stable block at Underriver should be refused for harming the National Landscape. Two homes at Badgers Mount and a house at Riverhead were granted.https://sevenoaksonline.co.uk/land-east-high-street-full-council-vote/https://sevenoaksonline.co.uk/land-east-high-street-full-council-vote/Tue, 14 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000NewsSevenoaks Full Council meets on 14 July to sign off a loan of up to £40m for the Land East of the High Street scheme, a new leisure centre, homes and public realm to be built with Wates. Here is exactly what councillors are being asked to approve.https://sevenoaksonline.co.uk/sevenoaks-wheelie-bins-recycling-upgrade/https://sevenoaksonline.co.uk/sevenoaks-wheelie-bins-recycling-upgrade/Sat, 11 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000NewsSevenoaks District Council will deliver around 100,000 wheelie bins from mid-July, start kerbside glass collections, and move to alternate weekly waste and recycling from 12 October 2026. The green recycling bags are being scrapped.https://sevenoaksonline.co.uk/sevenoaks-family-fun-days-summer-2026/https://sevenoaksonline.co.uk/sevenoaks-family-fun-days-summer-2026/Sat, 11 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000What's OnSevenoaks District Council is running free Family Fun Days for under-12s at 20 villages and parks from 27 July to 21 August 2026, with arts, crafts, sport and free bike marking by Kent Police at several sites. No booking needed.https://sevenoaksonline.co.uk/sevenoaks-bin-collections-heatwave-6am-july-2026/https://sevenoaksonline.co.uk/sevenoaks-bin-collections-heatwave-6am-july-2026/Fri, 10 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000NewsSevenoaks District Council is running waste, recycling and food waste collections from 6am until Friday 17 July 2026 during the heatwave, and wants bins out the night before. An amber heat-health alert covers the South East from 8 to 12 July.https://sevenoaksonline.co.uk/sevenoaks-local-plan-consultation-approved/https://sevenoaksonline.co.uk/sevenoaks-local-plan-consultation-approved/Thu, 09 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000NewsSevenoaks District Council's Cabinet has approved its revised Local Plan for a final public consultation, giving residents until 17 September to comment on 17,460 planned homes. Here is how to respond.https://sevenoaksonline.co.uk/white-oak-homes-swanley-groundbreaking/https://sevenoaksonline.co.uk/white-oak-homes-swanley-groundbreaking/Wed, 08 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000NewsBuilding has begun on 60 homes on part of the former White Oak Leisure Centre site in Swanley. The council-backed scheme, built by Skillcrown, helps pay back the cost of the £22m leisure centre that opened in 2022.https://sevenoaksonline.co.uk/sevenoaks-homelessness-strategy-consultation/https://sevenoaksonline.co.uk/sevenoaks-homelessness-strategy-consultation/Tue, 07 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000NewsSevenoaks District Council will consult residents on a new five-year homelessness strategy from 13 July to 21 August. Its housing register now holds 1,142 households. Here is what the plan and the figures show.https://sevenoaksonline.co.uk/sevenoaks-station-lift-upgrade/https://sevenoaksonline.co.uk/sevenoaks-station-lift-upgrade/Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000NewsSevenoaks station has reopened the lifts to platforms 3 and 4 and begun replacing the lifts serving platforms 1 and 2, the next phase of a renewal running to winter 2026. Here is what it means for step-free travel.https://sevenoaksonline.co.uk/sevenoaks-planning-committee-preview-july-2026/https://sevenoaksonline.co.uk/sevenoaks-planning-committee-preview-july-2026/Fri, 03 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000NewsTwo homes at Badgers Mount, a much-altered house at Riverhead and a stable block at Underriver all go before Sevenoaks councillors on 9 July. Officers recommend all three for approval, each called in by a ward councillor.https://sevenoaksonline.co.uk/bradbourne-lakes-summer-festival/https://sevenoaksonline.co.uk/bradbourne-lakes-summer-festival/Thu, 02 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000What's OnA free family festival comes to Bradbourne Lakes Park in Sevenoaks on Saturday 11 July 2026, from 12.30pm to 4.30pm, with a bouncy castle, magician, history walks and raft-building, tied to the £2.1m restoration of the historic lakes.https://sevenoaksonline.co.uk/edenbridge-135-homes-granted/https://sevenoaksonline.co.uk/edenbridge-135-homes-granted/Tue, 30 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000NewsSevenoaks councillors granted outline permission for up to 135 homes on green belt land south of Phillippines Close, Edenbridge, after lawyers warned that deferring the decision would be a material error of law. The draft minutes confirm the outcome.https://sevenoaksonline.co.uk/spitals-cross-edenbridge-investment/https://sevenoaksonline.co.uk/spitals-cross-edenbridge-investment/Fri, 26 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000NewsThe biggest investment in the Spitals Cross estate in Edenbridge in a generation is nearing completion, with 23 affordable homes, a replacement community hall and shop, solar panels and 60 new parking bays due in autumn 2026.https://sevenoaksonline.co.uk/sevenoaks-local-plan-update-june-2026/https://sevenoaksonline.co.uk/sevenoaks-local-plan-update-june-2026/Wed, 24 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000NewsSevenoaks District Council has published a revised Local Plan, raising its housing target to 17,460 homes and adding sites at Broke Hill golf course, Brittains Lane and London Road. A six-week public consultation opens on 23 July.https://sevenoaksonline.co.uk/sevenoaks-bin-collections-heatwave-early-start/https://sevenoaksonline.co.uk/sevenoaks-bin-collections-heatwave-early-start/Tue, 23 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000NewsSevenoaks District Council is starting waste and recycling collections an hour earlier from 22 to 26 June 2026 because of the hot weather, and is asking residents to put their sacks and food waste bins out by 6am on their collection day.https://sevenoaksonline.co.uk/sevenoaks-planning-committee-decisions-june-2026/https://sevenoaksonline.co.uk/sevenoaks-planning-committee-decisions-june-2026/Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000NewsSevenoaks councillors granted eight Traveller pitches at Farningham, up to nine homes at Ash and a Halstead extension at the 18 June planning committee. The 135-home Edenbridge decision has not yet been issued.https://sevenoaksonline.co.uk/sevenoaks-making-it-happen-awards-2026-winners/https://sevenoaksonline.co.uk/sevenoaks-making-it-happen-awards-2026-winners/Sat, 20 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000NewsTwelve winners, from DAVSS to a lifetime achievement award for Jan Berry, were honoured at Sevenoaks District Council's Making it Happen Community and Voluntary Awards on 18 June 2026, after more than 100 nominations.https://sevenoaksonline.co.uk/edenbridge-leisure-centre-investment/https://sevenoaksonline.co.uk/edenbridge-leisure-centre-investment/Fri, 19 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000NewsSevenoaks District Council has agreed to spend more than £2 million on Edenbridge Leisure Centre, with a new sports hall roof, refitted changing village and replacement heating planned between now and 2027.https://sevenoaksonline.co.uk/sevenoaks-leisure-centre-wates-approved/https://sevenoaksonline.co.uk/sevenoaks-leisure-centre-wates-approved/Fri, 19 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000NewsSevenoaks District Council's Cabinet has appointed Wates as preferred contractor for the £138m Land East of the High Street regeneration, with a new leisure centre, homes and a market hall. Full Council votes on the funding on 14 July.https://sevenoaksonline.co.uk/ash-church-end-homes-committee/https://sevenoaksonline.co.uk/ash-church-end-homes-committee/Wed, 17 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000NewsOfficers recommend approval for up to nine homes on green belt land at Church End, Ash Road, three months after refusing a near-identical scheme over a high-pressure gas pipeline. Councillors decide on Thursday 18 June.