MAKE IT MAIDSTONE MAKE IT PROSPEROUS
Maidstone Borough Council is working to bring prosperity to the borough. We help residents with housing and council tax benefits, heating and insulation grants, home improvement grants, free bus travel and by support for organisations which offer money advice.
Make Maidstone Quicker
USEFUL NUMBERS
Citizens Advice Bureau – 01622 752420 or 01622 757882
Council tax – 01622 602003
Housing benefit and general housing advice – 01622 602557
National debtline – freephone 0808 808 4000
Heating and insulation grants - 01622 602470
First time buyers’ grants - 01622 602470
Energy Saving Trust - 0800 512 012
Concessionary Travel - 08458 247802
Maidstone Borough Council has welcomed Kent County Council’s Make Kent Quicker initiative and wants Maidstone residents to register their demand for broadband on the county’s
makekentquicker.com website.
The council’s top priority is for Maidstone to have a growing economy with rising employment, catering for a wide range of skill sets. Access to fast broadband is essential for doing business, including the growing number of home-based businesses.
We have produced a map of broadband speeds in the borough which clearly contrasts the hot spots for broadband speed with the not and grot spots. If residents register their demand for faster broadband it will help to secure the investment needed to make Maidstone quicker.
As well as being important for leisure purposes, broadband reduces social exclusion so that more young people can complete homework online and more
Maidstone Borough Council has 14 commercial units for sale – ideal for starting up a small business.
The units are part of the Integra:ME estate in Park Wood and are ready to be occupied in the Start@Integra:ME section of the estate now.
Five units have been filled with -
families can access government websites and other services online.
Maidstone Borough Council is working closely with Kent County Council to help deliver enhanced broadband solutions and options for local businesses and residents.
Businesses, parish councils, community groups, and others which need guidance
Five star app
More than 1,140 people have downloaded the official Maidstone Visitor app since its launch in September.
The iPhone app contains what’s on, where to eat and drink, what to see and do, where to stay, and where to shop. Customers have rated it five stars.
The app will continue to be updated and improved and the next update is scheduled for the end of April. To find out more, or to get your business on the app and the website, contact the Visitor Economy Business Unit on 01622 602748 or
tourism@maidstone.gov.uk
Start up your small business
a photographic studio, a car tuning company, a computer recycling company, a double glazing manufacturer, and a plumbing firm.
The units are aimed at new small businesses which want a commercial premises for the first time or maybe expand a business currently run at home.
For further details contact Brian Matthews or Phil Hubbard at Sibley Pares Chartered Surveyors on 01622 673086 or email commercial@
sibleypares.co.uk
Jobcentre Plus – 01622 702700
on the benefits of faster broadband or advice on funding options can contact Keith Grimley, Maidstone council’s Economic Development Officer –
keithgrimley@maidstone.gov.uk, 01622 602393.
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