This area of the website will be used to store key background information needed for the development of the Neighbourhood Plan.

The Local Landscape Character Assessment 2022 (LLCA) for Hartley was produced by a Landscape Architect.  The LLCA is a tool to help understand what the landscape in Hartley is like today, how it came to be like that and how it might change in the future.  Its role is to help ensure that change and development does not undermine what is characteristic or valued about any particular landscape and to consider how the character of a place can be improved.

The Green Belt Reports 2022 relate to the land along Hartley's boundary with New Ash Green and with Fawkham. They were produced by a Planning Consultant to help us understand the value of the Green Belt in Hartley and the need to protect it for the future. 

The Hartley Parish-wide Design Guidelines and Codes (2023) was produced by a Planning Consultants to meet the National Planning Policy Framework's desire to promote good design for future development proposals and create better places in which to live and work and help make development acceptable to communities.