Policy information sourced from Tonbridge and Malling Core Strategy

CP12 Rural Service Centres

Housing and employment development or redevelopment, conversions and changes of use will be proposed in the LDF or otherwise permitted within the confines of the following rural settlements which are defined as Rural Service Centres:

  • Borough Green;
  • East Peckham;
  • Hadlow;
  • Hildenborough;
  • West Malling.

Development adjoining these settlements will only be proposed in the LDF, or otherwise permitted, where there are no suitable sites within their built confines and where there is a local justification related to the housing, employment, community or social needs of the settlement and its environs.

Within the Green Belt, development will only be permitted if it is justified by very special circumstances, and in the case of housing, complies with Exception Site Policy CP19.

For more information please see the Core Strategy