Dear Residents

Our Chairman would like to share some further information on the Facebook site "Stop the Destruction of Kent":

An update on MBC’s Local Plan – this was due to go back out to the public for further consultation this month, however, it was announced that this will now not be ready and a new timetable won’t be agreed until sometime in July.

The same developer F D Attwood & Partners has resubmitted plans for 650 houses at East Hill and 450 houses at Gibraltar Farm. These were both refused by Medway Council earlier this year. This is all part of plans for the landowner to build houses on the farmland privately owned in Capstone, Lidsing and Hempstead. As you can see on the map and if you wade through the pages of documents on the planning portals, these all interlink and help access each other.

The landowners own modest transport report suggests that the East Hill development alone will produce approx. 500 extra car journeys am and pm (up to 1000 extra per day). This will feed onto surrounding roads and have a direct access onto the Wagon at Hale roundabout. If he gets the go-ahead for these developments, added to the Lidsing Garden Development, this will mean 3000+ houses on top of the new Darland View development behind the Wagon.

Also, there will only be ‘space’ for retail or a surgery or school – not building, funding, or staffing these. Please note that the landowner also owns the farmland along Pear Tree Lane and Star Lane next to Darland Bank Nature Reserve.

Please see below the details to object to these should you wish to:

Please object to Medway Council for these:

East Hill MC/21/1520 – by 9th July

https://tinyurl.com/East-Hill-2

Gibraltar Farm MC/21/1296 – by 6th July

https://tinyurl.com/Gib-Farm-Medway

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Please object to Maidstone Borough Council for this:

Gibraltar Farm 21/502751/OUT – by 7th July

https://tinyurl.com/Gib-Farm-Maidstone

The Gibraltar Farm application is going to both councils because the roads affected are in both boroughs.

Chris Sheppard

Chairman - Boxley Parish Council