Ads on toilets approved
MAIDSTONE Council hopes to make as much as £12,000 from allowing commercial adverts to be placed on its property. The borough will allow pri-
vate companies to advertise on boards at 26 different locations, mainly public toilets and car parks, in urban Maidstone. The planning committee ac- cepted separate applications for all locations, but the proposal to place a 1.6m-high poster case at the Penenden Heath toilets was met with concern by local ward members Cllr Jenni Paterson
Keeping busy YOUNGSTERS in Headcorn are being offered a range of activities in a joint project betweenMaid- stone Council, the Multi Agency Youth Development Action Group (MAYDAG), and Kent Police. A boxing project takes place
every Tuesday, there is an ad- dition to the youth club on Thursday evenings and football on Friday afternoons. Kent County Council’s Youth Service will be in the village on Monday evenings, offering activ- ities from Refocus and KickKent. Neighbourhood Insp Geoff
Wyatt said: “We would urge parents to support their chil- dren in attending these activi- ties.”
ing any financial benefit, I feel we may have reached the thin end of the wedgewith this site.” He recommended refusal be-
cause he felt the sign would de- tract from the character of the area through the creation of an urbanising element. However, a separatemotion to
The decision to allow adverts at Penenden Heath toilets did not please all
and Tony Harwood. Cllr Harwood said: “While I support the principle of realis-
back the application was backed by seven votes to four to give the go-ahead to the appli- cation.
Maidstone Council will be al-
lowed to decline any adverts it feels are inappropriate.
Village hall home plan blocked ROBERT Schroeder’s application to build a replacement de- tached three bedroom home on the site of the former Kingswood Village Hall on the north side of Gravelly Bottom Road, has been refused.
Maidstone Council’s decision statement said: “The dwelling,
by virtue of its size and design, would be a more urbanising and visually intrusive form of development than the existing dwelling and harmful to the character of the countryside.”
Councillor’s oast colour change COUNCILLOR Dennis Collins, ward member for Coxheath and Hunton, was given permission to change the colour of weather- boarding on his home from black to white. Cllr Collins was last year given permission to convert Gudgeon
Oast in West Street into a two-bedroom home. One of the condi- tions was the colour of the weatherboarding, but members of the planning committee, which he sits on, allowed the change. Cllr Collins had to leave the Town Hall chamber during discus-
sions.
Benefit fraud A HEADCORN woman has ap- peared before Sevenoaks Mag- istrates’ Court after being caught fraudulently claiming benefit by the borough coun- cil’s benefits fraud team. Sybil John (48), of Thatch Barn
Road, was convicted of dishon- estly failing to notify Maidstone Borough Council that she had been working and had received more than £3,000 in payments that she was not entitled to. She was sentenced to a 12-month su- pervision order with 100 hours of unpaid work and ordered to pay £500 costs.
Keep up good work LOOSEInfant School is continu- ing to make good progress, says an interim Ofsted inspection. Because the school was judged to be “good” at its last inspection in 2009, a full as- sessment will not take place until the summer of 2013.
Vicar licensed THE Rev Alison Duguid has been licensed as the new vicar at St Michael’s and All Angels’ Church at Marden. Shewas for- merly priest-in-charge at Os- pringe and Davington.
KCC jobs cut KENT County Council has seen the equivalent of 2,417 full- time jobs cut from its staff since the general election, according to a GMB study of official data.
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