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Maidstone Borough Council accepts that the River Medway has rights!

20 July 2023

Local Greens are delighted that Maidstone Borough Council acknowledged that the River Medway has rights and that they need to consider these rights when they make decisions. The motion to the full Council meeting was proposed by the Greens who were pleased with the outcome despite some amendments being made. Cllr Stuart Jeffery, Green Party: […]

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Woodland Trust join us to fight Quarry expansion

30 June 2023

Green Party campaigner, Rachel Rodwell, has welcomed the new campaigning by the Woodland Trust against the expansion of Hermitage Quarry in Barming and has handed in a petition of over 400 signatures to KCC. Green Rachel Rodwell said, “There is an ecological emergency unfolding around us yet KCC and Gallaghers seem to think it is […]

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78 Bus Service revived!

24 June 2023

Maidstone Greens have welcomed the news that the Nu-Venture Bus 78 has been resurrected and now cover the number 8 route between Queens Road, Barming, Upper Fant Road and Maidstone Town Centre. Green Cllr Stuart Jeffery had been in contact with local bus companies and KCC chiefs to try to stop the closure. The service […]

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Stop The Quarry Expansion

24 June 2023

We are dismayed to hear that The Hermitage Quarry, off Hermitage Lane, could be expanded by a further 96 hectares, to allow its operators, Gallagher Aggregates Ltd, to extract a further 20 million tonnes of ragstone. We must not lose any more ancient woodland or farmland, particularly for a quarry extracting stone that we don’t […]

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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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