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Top story Sevenoaks Rugby Club rent cut to peppercorn, £11,740 grants Sevenoaks Rugby Club's £3,750 ground rent drops to a peppercorn after 25 December, and eight local charities share £11,740 in town council grants. Who got what. · 4 min read

Bins, council tax, parking and planning

Bins Sevenoaks Bin Collection Days: Sacks End Friday 9 October Your last sack collection falls in the week to Friday 9 October, then wheelie bins start on the 12th. Find your day, and why you cannot refuse a bin. · 30 min read Parking Parking in Sevenoaks: from £1.10 an hour, £5.30 all day Every council car park and bay priced. The cheapest is St Johns at £1.10 an hour and £3.20 for four hours, and two council car parks cost nothing at all. · 32 min read Local Info Sevenoaks Council Tax Bands 2026/27: Band A-H Charges Band D in Sevenoaks town is £2,563.23 for 2026/27. Look up your own bill: every band, A to H, in all 31 parishes, from £2,452 in Brasted to £2,615 in Edenbridge. · 23 min read Recycling Sevenoaks Tip Opening Times: 8am to 4.30pm, Book First Sevenoaks tip at Dunbrik opens 8am to 4.30pm, 9am to 4pm Sundays. How to book a free slot, same day or two weeks ahead, plus Swanley times and charges. · 28 min read Garden Waste Sevenoaks Garden Waste Collection Dates: Weeks Move 12 Oct Some permit holders switch collection week on 12 October; the council's emails telling them were due in late September. Sacks paused 12 to 16 Oct. £65 a year. · 19 min read Schools Sevenoaks Secondary School Places: Five Deadlines, Not One Kent's deadline is 2 November, but Knole Academy's arts places close on 7 October and both grammar schools with Sevenoaks campuses still print 31 October. · 15 min read Planning Sevenoaks Planning Portal: Direct Link, 21 Days to Object Search any Sevenoaks application by postcode or reference on Public Access, free and no account needed. You get 21 days to comment, and here is what counts. · 41 min read Bins Sevenoaks Christmas Bin Collections 2026/27: What to Expect Sevenoaks District Council has not published its Christmas 2026 collection dates. Here is last year's pattern, and why wheelie bins make this one different. · 6 min read

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Parking Sevenoaks parking charges frozen, but cash to go from April Councillors back a Sevenoaks parking charge freeze from April 2027, with cash phased out and a weekend charge at Gordon Road. Cabinet decides on 20 October. · 3 min read Community The Stag: 600 pledges top £117,000, beating £100k target Over 600 pledges worth more than £117,000 beat the £100,000 target to help Sevenoaks Town Council buy the Stag's £650,000 freehold. What happens next. · 3 min read Bins Sevenoaks wheelie bins start 12 October: glass goes in too Wheelie bins replace green bags on Monday 12 October, with glass in the green-lid bin for the first time. Deliveries end on the 11th; what to do before then. · 5 min read Community Greatness Pavilion up for grabs: ideas due 31 December The old Greatness football pavilion is free and Sevenoaks Town Council wants ideas by 31 December. What is inside, what it won't allow, how to bid. · 5 min read Planning Four towns oppose CIL cut, want levy kept up to 149 homes Sevenoaks, Swanley, Edenbridge and Westerham town councils have jointly objected to ending the levy on schemes of 10+ homes, citing developer cash left unspent. · 5 min read Swanley Swanley petrol station bids to sell alcohol 24 hours a day Swanley Service Station on London Road wants to sell alcohol round the clock and hot food overnight. Six neighbours object; councillors decide on 8 October. · 5 min read Parking Sevenoaks car parks could stop taking cash from April Two options for 2027 parking charges: a 2.5% rise, or no rise but no cash at council machines and £5 weekend parking at Gordon Road. Councillors meet Thursday. · 5 min read Waste Sevenoaks council this week: bins, parking, housing list Half the new bin lorries due by 12 October, stricter housing register rules, CCTV upgrade dates and a parking choice: every council meeting from 1 to 8 October. · 6 min read Environment Sevenoaks fly-tipping reports up 58% as fines stay rare Fly-tipping reports in Sevenoaks district rose from 1,462 to 2,310 in two years, yet the council issued seven fines last year, figures obtained under FOI show. · 4 min read Planning Sevenoaks planning applications: 6am petrol station bid All 32 applications validated in Sevenoaks district to 25 September: a 6am start at the St John's Hill filling station, nine homes at Kemsing, a Knockholt unit. · 6 min read Pubs Kings Arms Westerham wins 1am licence with new noise curbs Greene King's varied licence was issued on 8 September: drink to 1am on Fridays and Saturdays, no music in the ground floor bar past 11pm, garden cleared by 11. · 11 min read Planning Sevenoaks planning decisions: 3 refusals in 15 since May The committee refused 660 homes at Broke Hill on 24 September against officer advice, after refusing three of 15 cases since 21 May. Every decision, by meeting. · 10 min read Bins & Recycling New Ash Green wheelie bins: no lorries in garage courts New Ash Green bins must go out in pink roadside zones from 12 October, as bin lorries stop entering garage courts. The rules, and the village's objections. · 10 min read Planning Westerham phone mast vote closes 3pm on 2 October Westerham residents and businesses can vote on a 20m phone mast at King George's Field until 3pm on 2 October. The district council has already cleared it. · 5 min read Money Sevenoaks council finances: borrowing 'not sustainable' Council papers say funding projects from its own cash cannot go on: £100m of approved loans unused, £10.6m owed short term, £130,000 overspend forecast. · 6 min read News Sevenoaks District Council news: wheelie bins on 12 October Wheelie bins and kerbside glass start on Monday 12 October, borrowing is 'not sustainable' and council tax rose 2.98%. What each decision means for you. · 11 min read Crime Vine PSPO extended to 2029 as Halstead consultation agreed Cabinet confirmed The Vine's ASB order until December 2029 on Tuesday night, and agreed an October consultation on extending the Halstead car-meets PSPO. · 5 min read Crime The Vine PSPO: order stays until 2029 as ASB falls Cabinet approved the extension on 22 September: the order now runs until December 2029. ASB reports at The Vine fell from nine in 2023 to one last year. · 4 min read Crime Halstead car meets: 91 fines and warnings in four weeks Cabinet approved a four to six week October consultation on extending the order on 22 September, after 91 warnings and fines in four weeks this summer. · 6 min read Planning Broke Hill 660 homes decided Thursday: council month ahead Councillors decide the district's biggest housing scheme at 7pm on Thursday 24 September, plus every council meeting to late October and what each covers. · 5 min read Community Silver Sevenoaks: free over-55s events October to December Free leisure centre Sundays, a Silver Celebration tea on 4 October, a free Christmas party and 25% off golf: the over-55s programme and how to book. · 4 min read Planning Sevenoaks planning applications: barn home bid among 32 new All 32 applications validated in Sevenoaks district to 18 September: a Four Elms barn-to-home bid, a home at a Swanley nursery, Wagamama's delivery hatch. · 4 min read Crime Shoreham fly-tipper handed 28-week suspended sentence A 28-week suspended sentence, 150 hours of unpaid work and £1,500 to pay for dumping waste in Redmans Lane near Shoreham. An invoice left in the pile caught him. · 3 min read Planning Sevenoaks CIL plan: 8 of 16 object, all of them residents The levy consultation closed on 17 September and 24 responses are public: every objection came from a resident, while TfL and the NHS backed it. · 13 min read

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