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Councillors voted 5-1 for 125 homes at Spratsbrook Farm on Eridge Road, with 50 affordable and a 16ha park. What the A26 crossing row and £1.4m deal mean.
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Cricket
Tunbridge Wells Women Are Kent League Champions by 106 Runs
Tunbridge Wells Cricket Club's women won the Kent Women's Cricket League Premiership final by 106 runs, after topping the table by 37 points and losing twice all summer.
Events
What's On in Tunbridge Wells: a Free Beer Festival, Then Fireworks
Spa Valley's free beer festival runs 15 to 18 October, Dunorlan fireworks are on 7 November and the lights go on 14 November. Forty listings, with prices.
Remembrance
Remembrance Sunday Tunbridge Wells 2026: 8 November, 10.50am
Remembrance Sunday is 8 November 2026. The town service starts at the War Memorial about 10.50am; roads round the Town Hall close 10am to midday for the march.
Christmas
Scotney Castle in Winter: Christmas Trail 21 Nov to 3 Jan
Scotney's Fairytale Christmas and Gingerbread Man Trail run 21 November to 3 January, 10am to 4pm. House shut 2 to 20 November, all shut 24 and 25 December.
Elections
Cranbrook By-Election: Four Standing, Polls Open Wednesday
Polls open 7am to 10pm on Wednesday 23 September in Cranbrook, Sissinghurst and Frittenden. Four candidates, photo ID needed, winner serves only to May 2027.
House prices
Tunbridge Wells House Prices Rise Again: £456,227 in July
The borough average jumped £7,593 in a month to £456,227 in July, its first annual rise since March. Semis and terraces up, flats still falling.
Business
THE PIG Buys the Tunbridge Wells Hotel, Now Closed
The Pantiles hotel shut its doors this week and Companies House dates the takeover to 16 September. THE PIG's Groombridge Place plan was withdrawn in May.
Kent County Council
Tunbridge Wells Family Hub Move: No Decision Date Set
Consultation on moving Family Hub services to The Amelia Scott closed Monday. KCC promised an autumn decision; the committee work programme omits it.
Trains
Tunbridge Wells Trains: New Express to London From 14 Dec
A weekday Hastings express will call at Tunbridge Wells from 14 December, and semi-fast trains go half-hourly all day. What changes, and what is not yet known.
Trains
Tunbridge Wells Half Term: No Trains 24 Oct to 1 Nov
No trains between Tonbridge and Wadhurst for nine days while Grove Hill Tunnel's track is renewed. Buses, other routes, and less parking at the station.
Heritage Open Days
Heritage Open Days Tunbridge Wells: 8 Free Events to 20 Sept
Eight free heritage events run in Tunbridge Wells to 20 September, four of them this Saturday. Nine more are in the borough, from Paddock Wood to Sissinghurst.
Hospice in the Weald
Hospice in the Weald Run 2026: How It Went, and the 2027 Date
The 20th Hospice in the Weald Run was on 20 September 2026; results are on Sporthive and the next run is Sunday 19 September 2027. Routes, closures, ages.
T Wells, because nobody local says the whole thing twice in one conversation. The town grew up around the spring on the Pantiles, got its Royal in 1909 and has been explaining the difference between itself and Tonbridge ever since. They are separate towns, five miles apart, in separate boroughs, and plenty of post has been to both before it got where it was going.
This site covers the Tunbridge Wells borough: the town and the Common, Southborough, Rusthall, Pembury, Paddock Wood, Cranbrook and the Weald villages out towards Hawkhurst. Tunbridge Wells Borough Council decides planning, bins, car parks and licensing here, Kent County Council runs the roads and schools, and both publish their evidence where hardly anybody reads it. We read it and write it up, with a link to the document.
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