Kent Downs

That, that's the killer.

Um, I'm from Kent, obviously, and I remember historically Kent was quite a cold county in places, where I remember like Kent Downs you could, you'd normally get snow each year, High Weald, same thing.

But I mean, I think the last snow we had was, I mean, we had the beast from the east, but that wasn't really, that wasn't particularly useful.

And then, I mean, since then I can't, I think might've had one or two days of snow, but nothing to really-

In essence, what this does is land designated as metropolitan Greenbelt is way harder to get planning permission there.

Seven Oaks is 93% metropolitan Greenbelt and then most of the rest of it is within either the High Weald or Kent Downs national landscapes where other strict planning restrictions apply.

So in short, it's the fact that more than 90% of the Seven Oaks districts is especially protected from housing development.

The council can't really give planning permission there if they want to and also, frankly, they obviously didn't want to for a long time because they weren't getting enough houses built.