Cannabis plants Shop and homes ‘not welcome’
found at home A MAN was arrested after 80 cannabis plants were seized from a home in Woodford Road, Fant. The 46-year-old man was ar-
rested on suspicion of cultivat- ing cannabis after PC Jamie Botting from the neighbourhood policing team noticed the smell and called at a few addresses until he found the source. PC Botting said: “Crimestop-
pers is running a campaign to encourage people to report sus- picions around cannabis farms. If you suspect cannabis is being grown, then contact us and we will investigate further.” The arrested man was bailed until May 16.
Body in woods AFATHERofthree from West Farleigh was found dead in Oaken Wood, off North Pole Road, Barming. Searches
had been car- ried out for Peter Finch (60) after he went missing from his home in St Helen’s Lane. As DownsMail went to press, a post-mortem had not taken place but the death was not being treated as suspicious.
MORE than 60 members of North Loose Residents Associ- ation (NLRA) have objected to plans for a Sainsbury’s Local on the former ambulance station site in Loose Road. The proposed development,
which Oliver James Homes Ltd has submitted a planning appli- cation for, would also see nine houses built on the site. Complaining there had been
no public consultation prior to the planning application being submitted, the NLRA surveyed its members and of the 70 who responded, just six were in favour of the supermarket giant moving in. The NLRA compiled a list of objections to the plans and urged Maidstone council to re- fuse the application. Reasons included perceived traffic and parking problems, detrimental impact on wildlife and the en- vironment, and “postage stamp-sized back gardens” that would lead to children playing in the road and car park. The association was con- cerned Sainsbury’s would take business away from shops in nearby Boughton Parade. A document compiled by as- sociation secretary Jacqueline Day and displayed on theNLRA website said: “The applicant states the proposed develop- ment will not threaten existing
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shops. However, the area will not sustain two convenience stores, and both the existing conven- ience store and the local newsagentwill lose trade to a su- permarket giant. This has been demonstrated at Headcorn, where the opening of a Sains- bury Local very quickly saw the demise of an existing viable con- venience store.” However, in a planning state-
ment accompanying the appli- cation, Christopher Atkinson on behalf of Oliver James Homes said: “While the proposed shop will provide some competition for the newsagent and the con- venience store, it will overall strengthen the centre by acting as an anchor store, ensuring in- creased footfall at the centre.” The NLRA said it would pre-
fer a previously-approved ap- plication for 14 dwellings and no retail on the site.
Sainsbury’s has commis- sioned a company to carry out an acoustic survey to assess what impact the proposed store might have on noise levels in the area. The results will be fed back to the supermarket’s feasi- bility team, which will decide whether or not it wants tomove to the site. The convenience store, whether occupied by Sains- bury’s or another supermarket, would be 456 square metres, 278 of which would be retail space, and have a 13-space pub- lic car park and loading bay for deliveries. Vehicles would enter the site
via a new road from The Far- rows, a recently built housing estate nearby. The developer is also proposing four four-bed- room semi-detached houses and five three-bedroom terraced houses.
Volunteers clear up open space VOLUNTEERS from Valley Conservation Society have helped to clear an open space inWoodbridge Drive. OrganisedbyDaveFleckandDennisUsmar, from the society,andTony Morris, from Maidstone Council, the work party cleared small fallen stones from the base of a rock face and prepared the ground for a later work party to re-seed with grass and wild flowers along the base of the rock face. Mr Usmar said: “Eleven people from the VCS,Maidstone council, Tovil
Residents’ Association and local residents turned out on a bitterly cold day to clear the area. Thework partywas very grateful to the local resi- dents for cups of tea and sandwiches.”
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