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that the proposed 161 parking spaces makes for a “slightly un- dersized” car park. Increasing designated staff parking would free up more space in the main car park for customers. The creation of a footpath and low-level lighting linking the Lime Trees estate to the super- market. Improvements to the footpath on the southern side of Station Approach. A free bus to and from the su- permarket serving Frittenden. While members felt the new supermarket would be good for the village, the safeguarding of jobs at DK Holdings, which would be achieved if the scheme is developed, was also a consideration. Council chairman Cllr John
Perry said: “The employment issue is very important to the future of the village and the community as a whole.” Cllr Peter Spearink said: “It
has been a long time coming but at least we look like we are getting our own decent-sized supermarket. “WhileIwishitwas alittle
larger, at least it is a proper su- permarket. I would like to have seen more parking, but the pay-off is that this will enable there to be more retail floor- space.”
Gypsies try again at Paddock Wood
GYPSIES have made another attempt to live in PaddockWood lawfully. In October last year, two families were refused permission to site a total of three mobile homes and two touring caravans in Wagon Lane and nearby Queen Street. The gypsies currently live on the site without planning consent. The latest retrospective planning application, under the names Joseph Smith and Levi Smith,
requests a total of six static and six touring cara- vans over five pitches inWagon Lane. According to the supporting statement: “The
LOCAL residents have stepped up their campaign to get the illegal travellers removed. They claim the gypsies have ripped up a section of roadway
on a flood plain and already subject to flooding during peri- ods of heavy rainfall due to the fact that major drainage ditches converge at the junction ofWagon Lane and Queen Street.
“Raising the base of the mobile homesmay temporarily pro-
tect the travellers in themobile homes but the hardsurfacing laid will only add to the already poor surface drainage in the area.” Some residents, whose homes overlook the site, are also
angry that only nine householders, including one in Boughton Monchelsea, were invited to comment on the planning appli- cation, while they were not.
Mobile expansion MR J Fuller has been given permission to station another mobile home at Stable Pad- docks, Marden Road, Staple- hurst. The existing site consists of
three mobile homes, work- shop and garage. Maidstone Council granted planning consent on condition that only gypsies use the land.
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to connect their own water pipes to the mains, causing dam- age to the carriageway and water pressure in the area to drop. One angry resident said: “Wagon Lane is a single track road
land lies next to two existing gypsy sites. The ap- plicants, having been living on a local authority gypsy site for many years, were made homeless when the local authority decided to close the site where they lived. “The Smith family are well known and re- spected members of the Romany gypsy community. The site will have little visual impact, and such impact as there is will be lessened as the screening be- comes more established. “The children of the family
need a stable base to continue their education, and as such that can be regarded as “very special circumstances. Although in the flood zone, concerns can be dealt with by condition.” Maidstone Council, who refused
the previous applications on ac- count of flood risk and harm to the character of the countryside, will rule on the latest proposal.
Another caravan for established site?
A PROPOSAL has been submitted to add another caravan to the gypsy site at The Chances, Lughorse Lane, Hunton. In October last year, Lena Smith was given a four-year temporary permission to retain a mobile home and touring caravan on plot nine. In a joint application with Mr and Mrs J Collins, she has ap- plied to site another mobile home. According to the planning statement, the caravan would be used:
“To provide more bed space as Mrs Smith shares her caravan with her granddaughter
Chantilly.Mr and Mrs Collins only have a two- bed static caravan, which they share with their three sons and do not have space for a separate bedroom for [daughter] Chantilly.”
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