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Tonbridge market re-opens at Sovereign Way in April
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Updated: 09:19, 08 March 2021
A deal to provide the Tonbridge Saturday market with a new home has been agreed by its operators and the borough council.
The open-air market, which has been operating since the 1960s, will move to a council-owned car park next to Sainsburyâs in Sovereign Way.
Tonbridge market is set to return in April
Recent years have seen a steady decline in footfall to the market in its current location at the townâs railway station car park while works were carried out by Network Rail.
The market traders sought help from Tonbridge and Malling Borough Council to identify a more central position with easier access for customers.
Representatives from councils in the home counties have vented frustration over the challenges they are facing in delivering government housing numbers to two senior Whitehall officials, the week after many had their planning powers curtailed after failing to meet their targets.
The 2020 housing delivery test results announced earlier this month show that 55 councils are now subject to the National Planning Policy Framework s presumption in favour of sustainable development as a result of failing to meet a new target requiring councils to ensure 75% of the homes required in their area over the past three years had been built.
Of those 42 (76%) were in London and the home counties with five councils - Havering LBC, North Hertfordshire DC and Eastbourne, Epsom and Ewell and Southend-on-Sea BCs - seeing less than 45% of the required homes built in their areas.