Delivery & Post Office / BT Exchange, South Park, Sevenoaks

Previously emerging Local Plan Ref ST2-1 - The site forms part of the setting of the Sevenoaks High Street Conservation Area and the opportunity should be taken to re-develop the current building to a development of a suitable scale, form, materials and detailing which enhances the setting of the conservation area. Active retail/town centre uses should be incorporated at least on the ground floor on the South Park frontage of this scheme. Residential uses are likely to be in the form of apartments above the ground floor, duplexes or townhouses. If one element of the site is available for redevelopment in advance of the other, the development should be designed in such a way so as not to preclude the future integration of development, or the operation of the existing functions. The retention of the Post Office counter facility in a prominent location in the town centre will be required. Servicing, parking and access arrangements will need careful consideration once the mix of uses is determined. Development should improve pedestrian linkages to the town centre