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Anger at Council’s failure to back wide area 20mph limits in residential streets
Greens have expressed anger at Maidstone Borough Council for watering down a 20mph motion and voting for the status quo during last night’s Full Council meeting. The motion which originally called for 20mph limits by default on residential roads and would have brought the Borough into line with much of the country, was reduced to […]
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Save Our Bus Services
Maidstone Greens have reacted angrily to Kent County Council’s proposed cuts to bus services across the Borough. Eleven local services are at risk from the plans being presented to KCC’s Environment and Transport Cabinet Committee on Friday. The Greens have started an online petition to call on the council to invest rather than cut services. Stuart Jeffery, Green Party campaigner […]
Low spend on cycling and walking by KCC revealed
Kent County Council has been criticised for spending seven times more on road “improvements” than cycling or walking schemes across the Borough of Maidstone. When the A249 and A229 changes are factored in, this multiple rises to several hundreds of time more on roads. Stuart Jeffery, Green Party campaigner in Maidstone, “The difference in spending […]
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Concern over MP’s lack of action on Partygate
Local Green Party campaigner, Stuart Jeffery has questioned local MP Helen Grant over their stance on the Partygate scandal. With Boris Johnson being accused of lying to Parliament over parties held in No.10 Downing Street while the country was in lockdown, the Green Party has said that it is past time for the Prime Minister […]
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Maidstone Borough Council are planning a huge number of very large houses on farmland around the town.
These are unnecessary and do not meet the real housing need for affordable and social housing.
They are not close to jobs and transport and will just increase traffic on the already choked roads.
We face chaos: worsening air pollution, not enough homes for those in need and destruction of much needed farmland.
But there is an alternative...
The Green Party are demanding a new approach to strategic planning which truly involves local people. An approach that protects green spaces, reduce pollution and that will meet local housing need.
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