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Kent County to become factory centre?
Posted 10/01/10 by Matt B in the Urban category
Council in Kent offering all farmland for factory building in 2010 and onwards.Kent, the garden of England, could well loose it's title if one of it's Conservative run district councils gets it's own way.
The innocently named "Policy 25" would offer a way for planners to bypass all country and farm land protection rules by promising lots of jobs as a result of the build. The reason for this push is because the conservative leadership would very much like to build houses on the already desgnated industreal areas such as EuroKent. The companies most likely to benefit from this arrangment include those run by the council's own leadership!
(Local bloggers have more as do the BBC)
This all coming from a council that is never far from the news (for example misleading the public in a FOI request) with complaints about the behavour of their planning officers and irregularities in the way they have carried out certain actions. Not least of which are the significant threats to all the drinking water in the area. Is Thanet in Kent going to become a concreate jungle so that a few businessmen can line their pocket?
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