THEATRE DESIGN NOT “PROGRESSIVE” ADMITS COUNCIL’S ARCHITECT No more than one day into the Government Inquiry into the Compulsory Purchase Order (CPO) for TWBC’s vanity project, Calverley Square, the a...
YOUR BOROUGH NEEDS YOU! CPO PUBLIC INQUIRY RESULTS IN MAY The (Calverley Square) CPO Public Inquiry decision will be forthcoming in early May after the borough election. If the CPO is granted it w...
NEW THEATRE IS WRONG DESIGN Campaigners have long been telling Tunbridge Wells Borough Council (TWBC) that their new theatre is already out of date, and theatre profess...
INDUCTION CHARGING: ROADS TO CHARGE ELECTRIC CARS. It is predicted that in the next 10 years we will see roads ‘topping-up” electric cars on the move. Called the ‘electric road of the future’...
DOCTORS SURGERY WILL STRUGGLE WITH NEW DEVELOPMENT. As the infrastructure of our Borough continues to creak, a plan to build a 68 bed care home and day centre has been approved by the Council,...
NO LAND. NO PARK AND RIDE. The council claim that they cannot offer a Park and Ride in Tunbridge Wells, as they do not have the land. This is just one of many reasons ...
Clean Roads. New Materials To Remove Pollution. The design, construction and maintenance of roads will face a number of challenges in the coming decades. Photocatalytic air cleaning is ...
Street Lamps That Charge Electric Car A number of London’s street lamps are being adapted so they can charge electric cars, offering a solution to the challenges of installing de...
Phone Case That Measures Air Quality With pollution levels above EU acceptable limits in some part of the borough, could this be the ultimate must-have for residents living in o...
PLANNING REFRESH NEEDED According to David Knight, director of the architecture practice DK-CM “Planning has become unpopular, disconnected from the public and incr...
HOW TO TACKLE THE AFFORDABLE HOUSING CRISIS. An innovative council has partnered with contractors to build low-cost homes on council owned land. The homes are for first-time buyers and ...
THE EFFECTS OF OVER DEVELOPMENT – NOT ALL GROWTH IS GOOD GROWTH Both Bath and Oxford are experiencing a significant increase in retail footprint. Great for the ringing cash tills – not so great for the al...
RECORD NUMBER OF POLITICAL PARTIES LAUNCHED It has been reported that a record number of political parties have been created in the past year in an effort to challenge the big three na...
COUNCIL CHIEF AWARDED OBSCENE PAY RISE With Community Grants at risk, cuts to local services, and significant child poverty in some areas of the Borough, it is obscene that Willia...
NOURISH. PROVIDING FOOD FOR FINANCIALLY CHALLENGED HOUSEHOLDS. Tunbridge Wells is a wealthy borough but there are areas suffering poverty: for example 17% of children live in poverty* (where the level of...
