Rayner gives green light to 165-home scheme previously blocked by Gove on design grounds

Cranbrook (3)

Source: Berkeley

Plans designed for Berkeley by OSP Architecture and LDA Design

The housing minister has approved a 165-home Berkeley scheme in Kent which had been controversially blocked by the previous government.

Proposals for a housing development on land adjacent to Hartley Road, Cranbrook, were called in by Michael Gove, then secretary of state, in April 2021, who rejected the plans two years later against the advice of a planning inspector.

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