downsmail.co.uk Maidstone East Edition Maidstone & Malling’s No. 1 newspaper FREE FREE& Fortnightly October 2017 No.Maidstone 246 & Malling’s No. 1 newspaper News October 15th - October 29th downsmail.co.uk No. 283 Panto ahoy! Kate, 107, 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 The Future of Maidstone hasNews died aged 107, her son 3 launch this year's panto. Special supplement, October 2020 David has disclosed. On board The Kentish Lady were Ournational eight-page treasure Rustie supplement Lee (Fairy (inside) on Maidstone’s emerging revised Local Relief road talks MP’s Local Plan bid Godmother), former EastEnder Ste- KENT County Council has Planfan Booth looks (Prince at: Charming), Eliza- HELENindicated Whately a willingness asked the to beth Bright (Cinderella), Craig governmentexplore funding to halt models the for lAnderson Four garden (Buttons) villagesand, pictured, Future of Maidstone THE shape of Maidstone over the next 30 years is borough’sa Leeds-Langley housing relief scheme. road. à44 Stephen Richards and Adam Bor- emerging in key policy proposals now before lzone 118 (Ugly housing Sisters) . sites Maidstone Borough Council, with more to come. Key aims of the emerging Re- Work on Maidstone’s Local Plan They were greeted by pupils from vised Local Plan are to try to ensure Review is well advanced, based on PlansLuxury for cinema Dr Nigel l New-look riverside infrastructure improvements, em- the already challenging 1,214 fig- South Borough Primary School and ployment growth, maximising the ure, and the council is trying to ex- natural environment (especially the pedite the review’s progress so it is THEA REVAMPED widow of GP Lockmeadow Dr Nigel Minnet members of the media. The panto rivers) and developing the cultural based on current (not new) Gov- l Old cinema plans offer and visitor economy. ernment methodology. willOdeon walk cinema the Grand has re-opened runs from December 1-31. For tick- The biggest challenges involve One step being considered is tak- trying to meet ever-growing Gov- ing months out of the work pro- Canyonwith “luxury” for charity. seating for its 12 ets go to www.hazlitttheatre.co.uk. ernment demands for huge in- gramme, partly by eliminating creases in housing numbers. local consultation – but the com- l New GP surgeries A meeting of Maidstone Bor- mittee has twice voted against this, customers. à6 ough Council’s Strategic Planning because without local democratic Big plans for riverside and Infrastructure Committee was views, a Government inspector THE high-profile riverside area opposite Royal Engineers Way could be in l Tackling road jams presented massive reports (2,500 could have reason to reject the total for major changes now a Call for Sites proposal has been declared “suit- Jason Donovan date pages) with new detail and com- Revised Plan. able” for deeper investigation. The area covers Baltic Wharf Powerhub, and THEStepping former Neighbours down star brings hisIT show WAS to the the end Hazlitt of an era when TheatreLenham next Parish May. Council’s 18 CCTV call in a bid chairman stepped down. à8 Lenham’s ‘Trojan Horse’ THE massive house-building & Hythe District. From our PO future threat scheme planned for Lenham sources, it’s clear that MBC in- YALDING Post Office and 500 Heath by the borough council is a tends to start with a ‘modest’ other small branches may have to“Trojan Horse” stop to accommodate a fly-tipping1,000-home project at Lenham to shut after the Government much larger development de- Heath and once that first cut is prepares to cut a subsidy as a CALLSsigned to deliver for the a new installation M20 junc- of CCTV cameras to preventmade, fly-tippingsalami-slice its way on through a result of leaving the countrytion. road have been made by the local boroughthe councillor. countryside there, initially ful- European Union. à10 Maidstone Borough Council filling the garden village objec- (MBC)Burberry is currently Lane,near the “master Leeds andde- nearby, more than a year after it unlicensedtive.” waste carriers, but be- Broomfield, has been targeted by was dumped and set on fire. lieves the cost to small firms of dis- Obituaries à35 veloper” of a scheme for 4,000 MBC’s plans for Lenham Heath Obituaries 32 wastehomes, dumpers but critics for assert years, the but aim in re- is The church car park has also seen posingare now of set construction against added waste pres- at a Parishes à41 centreally months, to build the 10,000 problem in order has be- to many instances of illegal dumping. transfersure to resist station even is proving higher aGovern- deter- comemeet moreHighways acute. England criteria But it is a problem in many rural rentment that housing is costing councilsdemands more. and ParishComment Councils à34-3553-55 forConstruction access to the waste, motorway. rubble, hard areas including Langley, Otham sweepingCllr Fort reforms made her to local remarks author- as and Kingswood. Water Lane in ASH dieback has been discovered in core,The windows claim comes and as household Downs Mail fur- oneity planning of the borough’s powers. closest trans- niture is left illegally – often strewn Bearsted and Pilgrims Way have fer stations at North Farm, Tun- Monks Meadow in Detling; publishes an exhaustive eight-page Maidstone could be set targets in the middle of the road. alsowas beenfatally targeted flawed, recently. as it simply bridge Wells, announced it will be HollingbourneCurry housevillage saved fete stall- supplement, compiled and written of 34,000 homes, compared to the Cllr Gill Fort said: “Every month isn’tLast big year, enough Maidstone to convince Borough the closed for 10 weeks. holder co-ordinator Jean Duffy has by company President Dennis 17,600 agreed in the MBC Local resigned;COXHEATH yellow will lines keep are its curryneeded we are having toilets, sinks and CouncilGovernment cleared to 911allow cases a costly of fly-tip- new She added: “If you go along the Fowle, which details the “Future of Plan of 2017. forhouse Buffkyn after Way, all, followingOtham, to a allow construction waste dumped in the pingM20 andjunction this to year service more it. than 163 line of increasing fines, they have to buseschange through of plan Imperial by the Park; rub- village,Maidstone”, specifically trawled infrom Burberry thou- have“But been we recordednow believe since Lenham April. beThere enforced. is now A intense reduction speculation in the bishowners bins of in the the business. sports fieldà 11in Lane,sands whereof pages we of are official now papers. thinking TheHeath approaching is a Trojan darkerHorse; eveningspart of a chargethat MBC or offering will investigate it free may possibil- have Kingswood are to be moved over to ofLenham installing Parish cameras Council on privatechair- willsecret prompt scheme a rise on inthe illegal huge tipping.scale of theities desired to satisfy similar Highways effect.” Eng- the picnic area and rear exit. land,man John to oversee Britt (pictured) the problem declared: area.” OtterpoolCllr Fort Park, welcomed the ‘garden a joint initia-town’ land’sA three-monthly criteria for litternot only pick on10,000 the Young guns go for it “WeA recentalways event said inMBC’s Burberry so-called Lane tiveproposed by the for Environment other rural landscape Agency mile-longhomes in stretch the Lenham of road area, through but CrimeMEET the Reports budding entrepreneurs 35 sawLenham a caravan Heath burnedgarden village out while plan a andnext theto the Driver M20, andwithin Vehicle Folkestone Stan- Leeds10,000 village jobs, too. produces an average who have put the Covid-19 torched car remains on a footpath dards Agency to clamp down on 32 blackWe understand sacks of rubbish. council officials VEHICLESlockdown haveto been driven over areCllr in Fort,“regular, who frequent also serves dialogue” as a farmlandgood use. in Lenham,à18causing &19 parishwith Ashfordcouncillor, Borough says teachingCouncil damge to crops; an attempted children(ABC), Kentabout County social responsibility Council and break-in was reported in Detling; a andHighways the issue England. of litter in schools will vehicleVIAT was defiant vandalised in Bearsted help take the issueContinued off the on streets. page 5 Rd,THE Weavering Valley Invicta; pumpkins Academies’ were She believes with every household stolenTrust hasfrom defended an allotment its decision in YOUR LOCAL PROPERTY EXPERT receivingBLUE a weekly BADGE refuse collection Lenhamto send. some students home [email protected] service, there is no excuse for litter early to minimise the beingFURY thrown from- page vehicles 6 or Commentspread of coronavirus. 46-47à34 01622 690290 23 Pudding Lane • Maidstone • Kent dumped in the road. 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