New housing in Sevenoaks District Council
We don't read Sevenoaks District Council's planning register yet, so reports on fields here rely on national data: Green Belt, flood zones, protected land, farmland quality and how close a field is to a town or village.
Sevenoaks District Council can show only 3.6 years of housing land against the 5 required (as of 1 Apr 2026). National policy treats that as an unmet need for housing, which makes it easier to get permission for homes on land well related to its towns and villages.
It delivered 25% of the homes it needed in the 2025 Housing Delivery Test, below the 75% at which national policy treats it as having an unmet need for housing.
Key facts
- Local Plan
- Allocations and Development Management Plan, adopted 17 Feb 2015 (adopted; new plan at Regulation 19).
- Five-year housing land supply
- 3.6 years
- Housing Delivery Test
- 25% (2025): presumption
- Local Plan sites we hold
- 140 allocations and sites put forward for development
- Planning applications we hold
- 169
Applications for new homes, by year
Applications we have identified as being for new homes, by the year they were made. Approved and refused count those decided so far.
| Year | Applications | Approved | Refused |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 5 | 0 | 1 |
| 2025 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | 16 | 1 | 0 |
| 2022 | 5 | 0 | 1 |
| 2021 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
The largest housing schemes of the last three years
| Homes | Site | Status | Made |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | The Birches Birchwood Road Swanley Kent BR8 7QA Consultation on demolition of existing bungalow and erection of 5 no. dwellings with some matters reserved except access and layout 26/00933/OBB | Decided | 11 Aug 2026 |
Towns and villages
See every field round the edge of a town or village, scored for how likely it is to be built on.
- Ash (Sevenoaks)
- Badgers Mount
- Bitchet Green
- Brasted
- Brasted Chart
- Chiddingstone Causeway
- Cowden
- Crockenhill
- Crockham Hill
- Dunton Green
- East Hill
- Edenbridge
- Eynsford
- Farningham
- Fordcombe
- Four Elms
- Godden Green
- Halstead (Sevenoaks)
- Hever
- Hextable
- Horton Kirby
- Knockholt
- Knockholt Pound
- Leigh (Sevenoaks)
- Markbeech
- Marlpit Hill
- Otford and Kemsing
- Seal
- Sepham Heath
- Sevenoaks
- Sevenoaks Weald
- Shoreham
- South Darenth and Sutton at Hone
- Speed Gate
- Styants Bottom
- Sundridge
- Swanley
- Swanley Village
- Well Hill
- Westerham
- West Kingsdown
Where this comes from
- Local Plan: Sevenoaks District Council.
- Housing land supply: Sevenoaks District Council's published statement.
- Housing Delivery Test: Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government.
- How fields are scored: how the score works.