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Your Local
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Hello digitalservices@tunbridgewells.gov.uk
Here is your weekly update from Tunbridge Wells Borough Council
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Shape your borough and enter our prize draw!We're currently consulting residents on our Draft Strategic Plan for 2024 to 2029. Head to Talking Point to read the plan, share your thoughts, and enter into our prize draw to win one of five £20 vouchers for a shop or restaurant of your choice! Take part now. | | |
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Take some time at The Amelia ScottDo you feel isolated? Would you like to make new friends?
Spend some time with objects from the museum, looking, thinking and responding in a relaxed group.
Our FREE 12-week course starts on Wednesday 18 March from 1-2:30pm and offers you the chance to create art in response to objects from our collection at The Amelia.
If you live in the borough of Tunbridge Wells then you can join us to Take Some Time at The Amelia.
For more details, and to sign up, please contact Daniel Huckfield: daniel.huckfield@tunbridgewells.gov.uk 01892 554146 | | | |
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Nourish Community Foodbank
Nourish community foodbank is looking for donations. If you would like to help, take a look at their website to find out what they need and where to drop it off. | | |
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Tunbridge Wells Half Marathon
The Tunbridge Wells Half Marathon takes place on Sunday 18 February. The course is a single-lap anti-clockwise loop, starting and finishing in Southborough, and passing through Bidborough, Penshurst, Fordcombe, Langton Green and Tunbridge Wells.
The southern section of the course is likely to be the most congested.
Northbound traffic will be stopped on the A26, St John's Road to allow the race to start and will be allowed to continue after about 10 minutes. To find out further details of road closures, please take a look at the Harriers' website. | | |
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Murder they wrote! Crime fiction authors come to the literary festivalJoin four best-selling authors; Laura Marshall, Lesley Kara, Holly Seddon and Nicole Kennedy in a fascinating discussion about their works and various routes to publication.
This incredibly talented panel will explore crime fiction and speak honestly about their individual journeys and challenges when writing their respective works.
Taking place in The Amelia Scott as part of Lit Fest 2024, it's not to be missed!
Book your tickets at: theamelia.co.uk
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Your local information
For Town Hall Mount Pleasant Road , Royal Tunbridge Wells, TN1 1RS
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Bin Collections
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Household waste
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Recycling
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Your food waste is collected weekly on the same day as your recycling or household waste collection and it may be collected by a separate lorry at a different time of the day.
Got an awkward or bulky item to dispose of? Our bulky waste collection service will remove heavy or large items too big to fit in your bin. To visit the household waste recycling centre at North Farm you must book a slot in advance using the Kent County Council booking system.
Remember you can put old batteries out during your recycling collection week and small electrical items and textiles on your household waste collection week.
Check our waste and recycling pages for more information.
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Planning
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Up to three recent planning applications within 400 metres of your property are listed below.
38-40 Monson Road Royal Tunbridge Wells Kent TN1 1LU
Renewal of shop frontage including new signage and alterations to extraction location at rear of property.
View online 22/03229/FULL
Validated: 09/11/2022
38-40 Monson Road Royal Tunbridge Wells Kent TN1 1LU
Listed Building Consent: Renewal of shop frontage including new signage and alterations to extraction location at rear of property.
View online 22/03230/LBC
Validated: 03/11/2022
Black Sheep Coffee 27 Mount Pleasant Road Royal Tunbridge Wells Kent TN1 1PN
Advertisement - 2 sets of internally illuminated fascia text, 2 internally illuminated projection signs
View online 22/03097/ADV
Validated: 27/10/2022
There are more than 3 recent planning applications within 200 metres of your property.
You can search all new and historical planning applications in the borough on our website. Information about how to receive an email alert for any planning application in the borough can be found on our website.
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Events
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Join the fabulous Trinity Youth Theatre for SIX: TEEN EDITION, a full-length adaptation of Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss' international phenomenon SIX, modified for performance by teen actors for family audiences from 16 to 18 Feb. Book your tickets online.
On February 24 Trinity Theatre also plays host to the Tunbridge Wells Repair Cafe, where you can get all kinds of household items repaired for free. Find out more. | | |
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TYPIST ARTIST PIRATE KING elevates the recognition of the overlooked artist Audrey Amiss. Drawing from her extensive archive of diaries, letters, and art, the film seamlessly integrates actual events into an imaginative narrative, portraying Audrey's road trip with her psychiatric nurse. Showing at 8pm on 24 February, at Frittenden Memorial Hall in Cranbrook.
Book your tickets online. | | |
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Would you like to let thousands of people across the borough know about your event? Tell us about it and we'll do our best to include it in a future update.
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Your Councillors Park
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Local Councillors are elected by the community to decide how the council should carry out its various activities. They represent public interest as well as individuals living within the ward.
View your ward councillor's details on our website.
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Council Meetings
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General Purposes Committee: Monday, 5th December, 2022 6.30 pm
Planning Committee: Wednesday, 7th December, 2022 6.30 pm
Cabinet: Thursday, 8th December, 2022 6.30 pm
Full Council: Wednesday, 14th December, 2022 6.30 pm
Full Council: Wednesday, 14th December, 2022 6.30 pm
Full Council: Wednesday, 14th December, 2022 7.00 pm
The full calendar of meetings and how to attend can be found on our website.
Tunbridge Wells Borough Council publish a full list of the decisions taken at Council meetings along with the Forward Plan, a list of forthcoming decisions to be taken.
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Consultations and Engagement
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Vacancies
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Report it
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Roadworks
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Kent County Council look after the county's highways and roads and are responsible for issuing permits and licences for road closures. Kent County Council publish an online map of planned roadworks in the area.
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Find out the latest business news, funding, tips, services offered and business events from Tunbridge Wells Borough Council and its partners via our website, quarterly newsletters, #TWBiz for all and #TWTourismBiz for the tourism sector. | | | |
The Assembly Hall Theatre send out a monthly email with announcements about the latest shows, offers and discounts. | | | |
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