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Sevenoaks District Council would like to hear your views on the emerging Local Plan for Sevenoaks District, which includes proposals to meet the District’s future housing and development needs.

The consultation period runs until 11.59pm on Thursday 11 December 2025. Full details of the consultation, including a link to the online survey are available on the District Council website at www.sevenoaks.gov.uk/emerginglocalplan

You can learn more about the emerging Local Plan at ‘pop-up’ sessions across the District. At these sessions, residents can speak directly with officers from the Strategic Planning Team. You are encouraged to sign up for a session in advance as there will be limited walk-in availability on the day. The first Sevenoaks ‘pop-up’ sessions took place on Wednesday 29th October 2025, with the next ones scheduled for:

• Monday 8 December 2025 (1-hour sessions at 4, 5.30 and 7pm) at Sevenoaks District Council offices, Argyle Road, TN13 1HG

If you have any questions, you can contact the District Council's Strategic Planning Team at planning.policy@sevenoaks.gov.uk

Sevenoaks Town Council has now published its full collated response to the Local Plan Regulation 18 public consultation, as approved at its full Council meeting on 8th December 2025. This will now be submitted to the District Council for consideration.

The following briefing documents have been prepared by Sevenoaks Town Council in order to facilitate Councillors' discussions. These have been prepared with a sole focus on Sevenoaks Town, and therefore do not provide further detail on proposals outside of the Town Council boundary. 
They should be read in conjunction with, and not instead of, the District Council's draft Local Plan - particularly for those interested in matters affecting the wider District (i.e. Otford, Edenbridge, Swanley), but not Sevenoaks Town.

Summary of the draft Local Plan's Policies and whether they are likely to impact Sevenoaks Town

Summary of proposed housing or employment allocations within Sevenoaks Town, including any relevant planning history

Town Crier newsletter 

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The Town Crier is delivered to homes in Sevenoaks town and you can read it online too. 

Read the latest Town Crier here.

Christmas in Sevenoaks 

Find out about upcoming Christmas events on our webpage here.

Come along to the Sevenoaks Christmas Market in Bligh's Meadow from 11 to 24 December. 

Sevenoaks District Council is making plans to merge into a new, larger Unitary Council. As part of this process, the expectation is that all of the District Council’s currently-owned assets would be transferred to this new Unitary.

In a bid to protect key local assets, Sevenoaks District Council has initiated a protocol for considering asset-transfer applications from its Town and Parish Councils. Sevenoaks Town Council is seeking local views on which, if any, District Council-owned assets local residents believe would benefit from being transferred to more local, centralised ownership.

Please give us your feedback here: survey

For more information, visit our consultation page, which includes a more thorough explanation of this ongoing process, as well as access to a short PowerPoint presentation on the topic.