Turnden Homes

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A sustainable development in Cranbrook, Kent that will deliver much needed new homes for aspiring local homeowners, including 40% affordable homes for shared ownership and affordable rent. The plans will conserve and enhance the existing landscape and significantly increase biodiversity while creating vast areas of open space, child play areas and significant economic benefits to the local area.

Support Turnden Homes

A sustainable development that will conserve and enhance existing wildlife biodiversity while delivering much needed new homes, including 40% affordable homes, and significant economic benefits to the local area.

Artistic impression of the proposed development – Aerial view looking south

Artistic impression of the proposed development - Homes near The Green
Artistic impression of the proposed development - Homes near The Green

Take action for Turnden

To send a letter in support of the proposals, please fill in the form below:

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The vision for Turnden

The proposals will deliver:

  • 165 high quality new homes for aspiring local homeowners
  • 66 (40%) new affordable homes, including 50% shared ownership and 50% affordable rent, going beyond the requirement set locally
  • Significant economic benefits to support local jobs and businesses
  • An increase of 48% in biodiversity and significant restoration and enhancement of the landscape on site including publicly accessible recreational land, on-site open space, and child play areas
  • Management and protection of a landscape buffer within the wider land holding between the development and Hartley in perpetuity
  • Significant contributions towards local and community infrastructure
Site plan of development area and wider land holding - including previously approved Brick Kiln Farm and Turnden Farmstead sites

Artistic impression of the proposed development – View across The Green

Green space for community use - Highwood Village, Horsham

Community benefits

  • Protection of the countryside through a 35-acre green landscape buffer between Hartley and Cranbrook to be planted and proposed to be managed by Kent Wildlife Trust
  • Nearly 5 acres of new woodland and 15 acres of newly created recreational land
  • 2 new children’s play areas and 4 acres of designated open space
  • £1.4m financial contribution to improve local infrastructure, supporting the delivery of the new homes
  • Financial contributions to local sports clubs and the Cranbrook Community Hub
  • New and improved cycle and countryside walking routes
  • £29 million direct, indirect and induced Gross Value Added (GVA) in total per year (GVA measures the contribution of a company or municipality to an economy or region)
  • £3.1 million in additional net spending for the local economy annually

High quality homes

  • Landscape-led masterplan design
  • 165 high quality homes delivered in a sustainable location
  • 40% affordable housing, including 50% rented and 50% shared ownership
  • A variety of different homes including a mix of one and two bed apartments as well as two, three, four and five bed houses
  • 165 new households would, in turn, generate demand for local shops and services utilising public transport
  • Construction of the proposed development would generate additional expenditure in the local economy
Housing and landscaping - Hollyfields, Hawkenbury, Tunbridge Wells

We need your support

Despite resolving to grant planning permission Tunbridge Wells Borough Council’s Planning Committee on a site proposed to be designated for residential homes in the Draft Local Plan, the proposals have now been called in for review by the Secretary of State.

If you support high quality new homes including 40% affordable in a sustainable location and a commitment to securing the protection of the countryside and the delivery of significant areas of new planting and open space for community use, then please register now to support Turnden Homes.

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We need your support

Despite Tunbridge Wells Borough Council’s Planning Committee resolving to grant planning permission on a site proposed to be designated for residential homes in the Draft Local Plan, the proposals have now been called in for review by the Secretary of State.

If you support the delivery of high quality new homes including 40% affordable in a sustainable location and a commitment to securing the protection of the countryside and the delivery of significant areas of new planting and open space for community use, then please register now to support Turnden Homes.

Sign up now

Artistic impression of the proposed development – View from Hartley Road

Dear Sir/Madam

Re: Land Adjacent to Turnden, Hartley Road, Cranbrook, Kent TN17 3QX Ref: 20/00815/FULL

I support the Berkeley Homes planning application for the proposals in Turnden, Cranbrook. These proposals will deliver much needed homes for local people whilst ensuring the valuable countryside remains protected and enhanced with a net gain in on-site biodiversity.

The proposals will deliver 40% affordable housing, meaning young local families can realise their ambitions of homeownership and rented homes can be secured for those in housing need. Additionally, the development of the new homes and families will create significant economic benefits which would support local jobs and businesses.

Vitally, the proposals will deliver these benefits whilst also committing to the improvement and protection of our countryside.  The development plans will also restore and enhance the surrounding natural environment with significant areas of open space made available for public recreational use, ecological enhancement, and conservation grazing, with tree, hedgerow, woodland and meadow planting, creating a green landscape buffer between Cranbrook and Hartley whilst delivering a 48% gain in biodiversity.

I support these proposals for the reasons stated above. The proposals have already received a resolution to grant planning permission from Tunbridge Wells Borough Council, and I urge you to uphold the decision of the local council and grant consent.

Yours sincerely,

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