Protect The Four Elms Green Belt - Say No To The Housing Development

Affordable Homes Project - WILL NOT PROCEED - Thank you everyone.

We presented this petition (with over 100 signatories, both online and paper) to HPC at the end of June.  We are extremely glad to note that this project will no longer go ahead.  Thank you to all who took the time to sign the petition and to make your views known to HPC. 

As we no longer have this fight on our hands, we as a group, are now looking at other ways in which we can make a positive impact on the village of Four Elms.  

FROM HPC meeting on 7th July 2021...

Hever PC has decided that the support for an affordable housing scheme on Bull Lane, Four Elms, is not sufficient and therefore the scheme will not proceed.

The basis for this conclusion:
In 2018 we were asked by SDC to undertake a housing needs survey in our parish. This was conducted by ACRK who concluded there was a need for affordable housing. The PC started a consultation which stated that the scheme would only proceed if there was sufficient community support for the only suitable site – Bull Lane.

The consultation closed on 30 June and whilst there is considerable support, and 14 people have expressed an interest in living on the site, it is clear that there is also strong opposition. This means that the community is extremely divided and therefore in our view the level of support is not enough to justify moving ahead with this scheme.

We remain convinced, however, that our community should offer a broad spread of housing opportunities for local people and at present building on the green belt is the only way to ensure that affordable homes are ring-fenced for local people.

We will therefore keep this matter under regular review and expect to be asked to repeat the housing needs survey as one is due every five years. If we do so we will endeavour to work more closely with the community to avoid the damaging conflict which many have found very distressing.

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