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Tatsfield Recipe Book 2025 cover

Would you like to share your favourite recipe with the village?
Now's your chance. The Parish Magazine and Parish Council are working together to create an updated Village Recipe Book. And we can't do it without your contributions!
There are lots of categories - whether your signature dish is a beautiful cake or a hearty midweek meal we want to hear from you! There's also a section for Children's recipes - whether they are your kid's faves or something they like to make we want to include them!
To submit your recipe please click HERE by 30th September.

Books will be printed and available for Christmas.

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Furze Corner is in need of Your Support

Furze Corner

Furze Corner is the only publicly accessible provision of sports playing fields across the whole of Tatsfield. Until 2016, it was in regular sports use by two senior football teams, a junior football team, a senior cricket team and a junior cricket academy. It was also used for activities by 1st Tatsfield Scouts, children from the local nursery and as an amenity for local people for outdoor events and for walkers. Over recent years, the pitches have struggled with poor drainage and, due to the significant degradation of the old pavilion and changing facilities, only the cricket team are using the field.
Tatsfield Parish Council have now secured planning permission to build a new sustainable and fully accessible sports pavilion and to improve and reactivate the sports fields. We are fully committed to bringing Tatsfield Rovers and football back to the village for senior and junior teams and extending the participation in cricket. The project will encourage young people to participate within teams with modern purpose-built facilities. The replacement of the pavilion and the improvement of the pitch slope and drainage is essential to get this sports, health and wellbeing asset back in full use by the village. A new pavilion will also provide a valuable resource to other local clubs and societies. This is a project valued at £1.9 million and we have applied for £900,000 from Your Fund Surrey for this essential community project.To help us secure funding, we need everyone to show their support at the website HERE  it just takes a few minutes.

The deadline is 15 Sept

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TATSFIELD PARISH MAGAZINE - Sept edition

a - tpm 09 25 cover

 Click the cover picture to download the Parish Magazine.

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Road Closed

Jewels Hill - Monday 15/09/2025 for up to 12 weeks

Jewels Hill, Biggin Hill - Full road closure from Monday 15/09/2025 for up to 12 weeks for carriageway widening and drainage works.
The road will be closed for it’s entire length between the junctions of Oaklands Lane / Salt Box Hill and Sheepbarn Lane. The road will be closed for the entire works duration with no access to any through traffic during this period.
Traffic will be diverted via Salt Box Hill, Main Road A233, Leaves Green Road A233, Westerham Road A233, Croydon Road A232, Addington Road A2022, Kent Gate Way A2022, Lodge Lane, King Henry’s Drive and Sheepbarn Lane in both directions.
Access to Highams Hill Farm will be maintained via the Sheepbarn Lane side of the road closure.
Thames Water will be demobilising their water main replacement work at Leaves Green Road during this period to avoid both sets of roadworks being in place at the same time. Thames Water will still be completing water main replacement work in the Leaves Green area but will not be on the main road during this time.
Thames Water will then return to Leaves Green Road in January 2026 to recommence the main replacement project on the main road.

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Covers Quarry Planning Application

Covers Farm

Planning Application KCC/SE/0495/2018:  Covers Quarry 

Planning application KCC/SE/0495/2018, concerning the restoration of Covers Quarry (formerly known as Squerryes Sandpit), was submitted to Kent County Council in 2018.  The application was objected to by Westerham Town Council, Brasted and Sundridge Parish Councils, Sevenoaks District Council, Tatsfield Parish Council, and Bromley Council.  Kent County Council subsequently refused the application in July 2024.
The Applicant appealed the refusal, and an appeal hearing was held in June 2025.  The Planning Inspectorate has now allowed the appeal, meaning the Applicant may proceed with the restoration of the quarry in accordance with the scheme as detailed within the application.
The approved restoration scheme involves the importation of up to 800,000m3 of inert material.  Vehicle movements associated with this importation of material include up to one lorry every five minutes travelling through Brasted and Sundridge and then along Beggars Lane, and also up to one lorry every five minutes descending Westerham Hill.  All of these lorries will use a temporary road constructed behind Churchill primary school to get to Croydon Road which they will then cross to get into the quarry.  In addition, up to one lorry every twelve minutes is expected to travel down Croydon Road to get to the quarry.
It is understood that lorries will not be permitted to pass through Westerham town centre.  The restoration process is expected to take a minimum of five years to complete.
Any questions regarding the restoration scheme should be directed to the Applicant.

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