The Cake - Spring 2022

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The Ga lery
Galleons
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Stapley
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NOTES:
Report all discrepancies, errors and omissions.
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preparing shop drawings.
All materials, components and workmanship are to comply with the
relevant British Standards, Codes of Practice, and appropriate
manufacturers recommendations that from time to time shall apply.
For all specialist work, see relevant drawings.
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2 Kinsbourne Court, Luton Road,
Harpenden, Hertfordshire Al5 3BL
8, Disney Street
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Revision
DEVELOPMENT
Community and
Medical Centre Latest
I updated you last year on progress with our Community and Medical
Centre and I’m pleased to report the latest.
Just to recap, the project at the
moment will contain the new
library, multi-use rooms, seating,
a large teaching kitchen, WCs,
some quiet office spaces, storage,
a plant room and bin space. Also,
the site is situated on a sloping piece
of land, so the design will use the
topography to utilise this to the best
advantage.
We are still open for ideas on usage
and would welcome suggestions from
you all so that we can give as full
a brief to the professional team as
possible.
As you are aware there has been
a delay to the project due to Covid
distractions and lockdowns.
However, our GPs have been
working on suitable specifications for
the Medical centre. They have been
putting together details like the space
needed and the number of consulting/
treatment rooms. I am pleased to
report that the doctors have now
completed their specifications which is
great news. At the time of writing this,
the document was going through its
final sign off process.
On receipt of this document our
project manager will re-run the
numbers in the Business Case and was
endeavouring to complete this by the
end of February. He can begin to put
together the brief for the designer/
architect/constructor.
At last, we have the chance to push
on with your project and we are very
much looking forward to seeing it take
shape.
So, just a reminder, there is still
time for more ideas and suggestions
from you, as to what you would like to
see in your community centre. Please
let us know.
Cllr. Colin Gilbert
Fernham Homes
Recreation Ground
Play Area
2 1
Tennis
Courts
The Street
Proposed Mixed Use Development, The Street, Sissinghurst
Houses “too crammed”
say critics of village
development
Farnol Co t
3 16
Although Sissinghurst would benefit from a
brand new village hall if Fernham Homes was
allowed to build houses in the village, the
parish council has voted against the plan.
Fernham included the attractive hall as part
of its plan for two four-bed, 15 three-bed and
two two-bed homes on the Bringloe land in
The Street.
However, the council’s planning committee
members agreed that 19 homes on the land
looked “crammed”. There was also concern
that the hall car park could be used by people
visiting the new homes. Parking is already a
big problem in the village as there is very little
off-street parking.
The proposed site is currently home to the
old village hall which many people believe
is a landmark and should be taken down and
put up elsewhere in the village. One objector
Old Star Co t
Co tage
Phoenix
Robin Co tage
Cats Co tage
Wyndhurst
Scale 1:500
N
0 5 10 15 20 25 50m
Proposed Mixed Use Development
The Street
Sissinghurst
Proposed Site Layout Plan
1:500@A2
July 2021
Kent CT1 2BH 01227 762060
London SE1 1JF 0203 597 6112
CANTERBURY
30153A / 10
EE
TWM
LONDON
HARPENDEN
described the tin building, built more than a
century ago, as a “treasure” which should be
saved.
The site backs onto a row of listed
properties, none of which has its own parking,
and committee members would like to see
Fernham providing areas for the residents as
part of the development, as was shown on a
previous plan.
The independent watchdog, Cranbrook
Conservation Area Advisory Committee, has
also spoken out against the plan as being
“too dense” and a terraced block of three
dwellings “particularly unattractive”. Parking
arrangements are not ideal and show the
buildings, access and parking “so tight” there
is little room for additional landscaping
anywhere, particularly the boundaries. All
these concerns would have an adverse effect
on the High Weald Area of Outstanding
Natural Beauty as well as the adjacent
Sissinghurst conservation area.
The final decision rests with Tunbridge
Wells Borough Council. TF
TWBC PLANNING PORTAL / FERNHAM HOMES
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