‘Unwelcome’ therapy centre told to leave spiritual home in Detling
A SPIRITUAL response therapy centre has been told it can no longer operate from its base in Detling. Maidstone Council refused a retrospective planning application for the continued use of a timber-framed outbuilding in Oakhurst, Scragged Oak Road, for teaching and overnight student accommodation. A supporting statement on behalf of the applicant said: “Our client runs teaching courses in spiritual response which enable
students to release their spiritual energies to help family, friends and others. “The courses are three days in duration
and draw students from all over the world and not simply the UK. Students generally need to stay overnight for two to three nights, and this is why the overnight stu- dent accommodation is required, due to its isolated location.” The applicant admitted hosting 11 courses and operating out of the site on 36
days during the previous year. The council ordered the use to cease, citing it an “un- welcome addition to sporadic development in the countryside, detrimental to the char- acter of the Kent Downs Area of Outstand- ing Natural Beauty and the North Downs Special Landscape Area “This is an unsustainable location for the
use proposed with poor access to basic serv- ices and public transport placing an over-re- liance on the use of the private motor car.’
Family’s terrifying ordeal
A BOUGHTON Monchelsea family were detained in hospi- tal after a terrifying experience when they were thrown at speed out of a horse-drawn car- riage on holiday in Romania. Colin Trelfer, a retired partner
in asb law, Maidstone, wife Maureen, son Daniel (35) and wife of five years Carmen (30) were visiting Carmen’s family in Transylvania for five days. The tourist outing to nearby
Count Dracula pub was to have been one of the holiday high- lights but it came to a dramatic end when the horse bolted for about 100 yards and the car- riage was in a major side-on col- lision with a fast-moving car. All four were thrown from the carriage on to the road and suf- fered injuries. Carmen was kept in hospital for five days with a skull fracture and a blood clot on her brain. She is now ex-
pected to recover fully. The other three were in hospital for three days. Colin, the incoming vice-pres-
ident of the Rotary Club of Maidstone, who is recovering from a broken rib, facial lacera- tions and bruises, said: “It is thought the horse was stung by a bee or wasp and took off at such speed the driver totally lost control.
“It galloped down the road
right on to a busy and fast main road and the car driver had no chance of avoiding us. “There was a tremendous im-
pact on my side of the carriage and we were thrown all over the place. I was knocked un- conscious and remember no more until I woke up in hospi- tal. We were lucky all to sur- vive.”
MOREmobile speed cameras have been sited in Maidstone during the past year than anywhere else in Kent. Speed camera vehicles were at one of10
speed hotspots in the town 246 times during 2010-11 – nearly 100 times more than any other town in the county. Medway had the next highest number ofvis-
its, with a van at its 19 designated sites 150 times. Death and serious injuries caused by speeding
Ban for failure to
give breath analysis LUKE Johnson (28) of Emsworth Grove,Vinters Park, was given a three-year driving ban for failing to provide a breath specimen after being investigated for a possible driving offence in Maidstone in April. Mid Kent Magistrates Court
gave him a three-month curfew running between 9pm and 6am daily until August 31, and or- dered him to pay £85 costs.
Mobile speed cameras cut injury and death toll
in Maidstone have been cut from 15 to seven a year since camera cars were deployed. The biggest fall is at the bottom of Blue Bell
Hill. Before the camera car was deployed in 2002, six people died or were seriously injured there but this has fallen to one person in the past three years. Blue Bell Hill is one offour sites where the mo-
bile camera operates independently ofa fixed camera – the others are at Loose Road (A229), Stockbury (A249) and Nettlestead (B2015).
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