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10th August 2018Political backlash over council's latest housing scheme in centre of Maidstone
A PLAN to build more than 1,000 houses in the centre of Madistone has met with a cross-party backlash. Maidstone Borough Council (MBC) paid agents Savills to produce a document detailing ...
6th August 2018Nick Yandle steps down as chief executive of the Gallagher Group
THEchief executive of the Gallagher Group, Nick Yandle,will leave his job at the end of the year. Mr Yandle has been in the post for 13 years and he said it is time to hand on ...
800 NEW HOMES: Council's modal shift policy is 'pie in the sky'
RESIDENTS have expressed worries about the volume of traffic created by hundreds of new houses to be built in Langley. The development will see 800 homes on the A274, near Langley village, to be ...
LATEST: Five weeks of water works have been cancelled
WATER works which would have brought weeks of traffic disruption to Aylesford have been stood down with no new date set, according to reports. South East Water was due to carry out £30,000 ...
EXCLUSIVE: Maidstone Borough Council to challenge judicial review decision
MAIDSTONE Borough Council is set to challenge the judgement by the High Court onits failed application for a judicial review into road levies. We understand that the authority will pursue an ...
Maidstone Borough Council considers appeal after failure of judicial review
MAIDSTONE Borough Council is considering an appeal after its legal action against Kent County Council over the use of road levies was thrown out of the High Court earlier this week. MBC had ...
BREAKING: High Court judge throws out council judicial review - but what cost?
MAIDSTONE Borough Council's controversial plan to take the county council to the High Court over the use of transport levies has fallenat the first hurdle. A request for a judicial ...
TRAFFIC: Lib Dem council leader 'not 100% sure' modal shift concept can work
THE Liberal Democrat leader of Maidstone Borough Council, Martin Cox, has admitted he cannot be “100% sure” the controversial concept of “modal shift” will ...
Get tough on illegal traveller sites, says influential landowners' body
A LEADING rural landowners' body has called on government to create a new offence of criminal trespass, which would impact on travellers who invade land without permission. The Country Land ...
KCC LEADER: borough's legal action on road cash 'total waste of money'
THE leader of Kent County Council has rubbished the borough council's judicial review into the allocation of road cash as a "total waste of money". Cllr Paul Carter claims the ...