Protest Rally Planned to Say No to Housing
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downsmail.co.uk Maidstone East Edition Maidstone & Malling’s No. 1 newspaper Maidstone East Edition FREEdownsmail.co.uk Maidstone & Malling’s October 2017 No.No. 246 1 newspaper NewsFREE JanuaryPanto 2020 ahoy! Kate,No. 107, 273 dies THE cast of Cinderella, which is to be KATE Hart, a resident at an old staged at the Hazlitt Theatre in Maid- people’s home in Bearsted, stone, took to the River Medway to News has died aged 107, her son 3 launch this year's panto. David has disclosed. GoodOn board The report Kentish Lady were Izzy’s call-up THE Lenham School has national treasure Rustie Lee (Fairy TEENAGER Izzy Shelley, an In- Godmother),achieved a “good” former rating EastEnder by the Ste- MP’s Local Plan bid education watchdog Ofsted. victa Grammar pupil, has been fan Booth (Prince Charming), Eliza- HELEN Whately asked the The secondary, once the fail- called up to represent her beth Bright (Cinderella), Craig governmentcountry at hockey. to halt the à3 Andersoning Swadelands, (Buttons) is and,part ofpictured, the borough’s housing scheme. 4 StephenValley Invicta Richards Academies and Adam Trust Bor- zone(VIAT) (Ugly under Sisters) head . teacher Bishop Rose speaks ChrisThey Foreman. were greeted by pupils from PlansTHE new forBishop Dr of Nigel Dover has SouthSee pageBorough 6 for Primary full story. School and THEspoken widow for theof GP first Dr time Nigel Minnet members of the media. The panto willabout walk the the role. Grand à5 runs from December 1-31. For tick- Canyon for charity. 12 ets go to www.hazlitttheatre.co.uk. Mental hospital woe JasonWE STUDY Donovan the decline dateof the Protest rally planned THECygnet former Hospital Neighbours which star led brings to the death of a father by his show to the Hazlitt CCTV call in a bid Theatrehis son. next May. à188 to say no to housing Postal service POST Office staff did not allow a ramraid of the branch in A MASS rally is being planned to highlight the growing “people's protest” Bearsted to stop it re- againstto the stop council’s plans for fly-tipping 28,000-plus homes in the borough. opening for Christmas. à10 CALLSOrganisers for are the looking installation for a present of CCTV level of camerasdevelopment. to Only prevent ONLINE fly-tipping OPINION onPOLL a venue to hold about 1,500 people, 6,500 homes from the Local Plan Bin collection ‘sorry’ wherecountry representatives road have hope beento send madehave so by far been the delivered. local borough councillor.DOWNS Mail has launched an THE borough council has apolo- a messageBurberry to Lane, Liberal near Democrat-led Leeds and nearby,Now the more Save than Our a Heath year after Lands it unlicensedonline poll waste to test carriers, public opinion but be- gised for its “unreliable” bin col- MaidstoneBroomfield, Borough has been Council targeted that by was(SOHL) dumped pressure and setgroup on fire. wants to lieveson Maidstone the cost to Borough small firms Council’s of dis- lection service in recent enoughwaste dumpers is enough. for years, but in re- joinThe forces church with car other park hashousing also seen op- posingmassive of housing construction plans. waste at a Obituariesmonths. à3223 centThe months, MBC Local the problem Plan, adopted has be- manyposition instances outfits to of galvanise illegal dumping. support transferWe are station asking is provingour readers: a deter- twocome years more ago, acute. commits it (under forBut a rally it is to a problempersuade in local many and rural cen- rentl thatGiven is costing mounting councils concerns more. ParishObituaries Councils 34-35 à32 GovernmentConstruction direction) waste, rubble, to build hard areastral government including to Langley, halt future Otham de- Cllramong Fort residents made her about remarks house- as 17,600core, windows houses. and household fur- andvelopment Kingswood. plans. Water Lane in onebuilding, of the borough’straffic on the closest roads trans- and ASHParishes dieback has been discovered à34-36 in Monks Meadow in ; nitureBut the is left Local illegally Plan –review often strewn could BearstedA SOHL and spokesman Pilgrims Waysaid havecom- ferthe stations squeeze at on North public Farm, services, Tun- Detling HollingbourneA MUCH-loved villagenewsagents’ fete stall- allow,in the middleaccording of theto an road. MBC docu- alsomunities been must targeted take recently. back control of bridgeshould Wells, Liberal announced Democrat-con- it will be ment,Cllr for Gill an Fort additional said: “Every 10,500. month theirLast destinies. year, Maidstone Anyone interested Borough closed for 10 weeks. holdershop, co-ordinatorlatterly run byJean Keith Duffy Var- has trolled Maidstone Borough Coun- resigned; yellow lines are needed weThe are senior having management toilets, sinks and andLib Councilcan contact cleared SOHL 911 cases by ofemailing fly-tip- She added: “If you go along the ney, has shut in Lenham after 70 cil consider the suspension of for Buffkyn Way, Otham, to allow Demconstruction leadership waste have dumped now become in the [email protected]. and this year more than163 line of increasing fines, they have to years; Malcolm Gallihawk has any further development? buses through Imperial Park; rub- thevillage, “master specifically developers” in Burberry of the haveSchemes been for recorded tens of thousands since April. of be enforced. A reduction in the taken over the running of the To respond, go to www.downs- bish bins in the sports field in hush-hushLane, where plan we areto nowbuild thinking 5,000 Thehouses approaching were contained darker in evenings the re- charge or offering it free may have Lorry Watch scheme in Leeds mail.co.uk/views/14. Kingswood are to be moved over to housesof installing at Lenham cameras Heath. on private willcently-published prompt a rise “call in illegal for sites” tipping. list, the desired similar effect.” from mid-January; a lack of pub- Residents are becoming increas- among them the MBC-led scheme thelic presencepicnic area at and Harrietsham rear exit. land, to oversee the problem area.” Cllr Fort welcomed a joint initia- lorA three-monthlyEddie Powell accused litter pick MBC on the of ingly worried that the roads and for Lenham Heath. parish meetings was noted. A recent event in Burberry Lane tive by the Environment Agency mile-long“effectively stretch pre-determining of road through its Crime Reports 35 services are unable to cope with the andIndependent the Driver Maidstone and Vehicle council- Stan- saw a caravan burned out while a Leedsown site. village It stinks”. produces an average torched car remains on a footpath dards Agency to clamp down on 32 black sacks of rubbish. VEHICLESCrime haveReports been driven à over36 MBC claims: “No decisions have farmland in causing Cllr Fort, who also serves as a A VEHICLE wasLenham, keyed in Bearsted; been taken on the submitted sites. damge to crops; an attempted parish councillor, says teaching diesel was drained from a car Many will be deemed unsuitable. break-in was reported in Detling; a children about social responsibility parked in Sittingbourne Road, We’re keen to work with the com- vehicle was vandalised in Bearsted and the issue of litter in schools will Detling; a house in Boxley was helpmunity, take especially the issue with off thelandowners streets. Rd, Weavering; pumpkins were and developers, to map out poten- stolenbroken intofrom and an valuables allotment taken; in a She believes with every household trailer was stolen from a premises receivingtial sites and a weekly be clear refuse about collection what de- Lenham. YOUR LOCAL PROPERTY EXPERT in Church Road, Otham. 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To AN INVICTA Grammar School described her as a “rising teenage book visit www.parkwoodthe- student has been celebrating her star” and she was deemed good atres.co.uk/Hazlitt-Theatre call-up to international hockey. enough at the end of last season to Izzy Shelley (15), who is in year debut in the Euro Club Trophy. 11 at the Huntsman Lane school, Izzy, who is a Kent U17 cricketer, Craft & talk has been selected for the England said: “It was a rollercoaster, there START the New Year putting your under 16s girls’ squad.