Press coverage
Since the campaign began in summer 2019, Save Capel has featured widely across print, radio, TV and online media, helping to raise awareness of our plight.
Below is a selection of items where the campaign has been covered.
Any press enquiries can be sent to Chris Callander at communications@savecapel.com
On and offline press coverage
KM Group
Save Capel campaigner swims in flood water to highlight risks of new housing plans
Hundreds join Save Capel protest in Tunbridge Wells against homes plan
Tonbridge and Malling calls special meeting to discuss Tudeley garden village
Tunbridge Wells council under fire over Local Plan proposals
Capel protesters urge Tunbridge Wells council to drop Garden Village plan
Tudeley and Paddock Wood housing plans spark angry reaction
Save Capel begins fight back against Tunbridge Wells’ garden village scheme
Kent & Sussex Courier/Kent Live
‘Garden village will turn our beautiful part of Tunbridge Wells into an extension of Tonbridge’
Fury over plans to build 4,000 new homes on Tonbridge border
This is where 6,800 homes could be built in Tunbridge Wells borough
These garden towns and cities will change the face of Kent as you know it by 2050
Times of Tunbridge Wells
Tunbridge Wells Local Plan delayed for six months
Local plan special feature (page 4 and 5)
‘Extreme alarm’ at pressure on roads and trains from housing
Tonbridge under threat from plan to build 2,600 houses in village
Considerable expansion of Paddock Wood is Tunbridge Wells’ answer to housing crisis
Villagers march on the town hall in protest against ‘ill-conceived’ plan
Campaigners descend on Westminster over council’s plans for garden village