Maidstone Borough Council 3
Thank you for recycling
Maidstone is recycling more rubbish than ever before and the council would like to say a big thank you to all residents for their patience during the introduction of the new waste contract this summer. Some residents had to wait longer than usual for their collection during the first fortnight of the new service but collections soon returned to their regular frequency. Prior to the introduction of the new service, Maidstone residents were recycling more than 45% of the borough’s rubbish. As part of the new contract, recycling is being sent to a different sorting facility with technology that can automatically separate the different materials collected
Maidstone’s recycling team, including Marion Ring, Cabinet Member for the Environment (second left) took to the road to promote the recent changes to rubbish and recycling collections.
in the recycling. This means that glass bottles and jars, plastic meat trays and ready meal trays, food and drink cartons, and plastic fruit and vegetable punnets can now be placed in green recycling bins and black boxes. These changes make it even easier to
recycle from home and the council is confident that we will be recycling more than 50% of the borough’s rubbish by 2014. For more information on the new service visit
www.recyclingtogether.co.uk.
Maidstone Local plan consultation remembers Maidstone has a growing
Maidstone will remember those who have been killed in conflict fighting for their country on Remembrance Day, Sunday 10 November. The Mayor of Maidstone, Cllr Clive English, will join military and civic dignitaries and councillors, at this year’s parade. It will be led by the Band of the Salvation Army with contingents from 36 Engineer Regiment (Search), Royal Army Medical Corp Association, the Maidstone Branch of the Royal British Legion, the British Army Association, St John Ambulance, and Sea and Army Cadets. More than 500 people will take part. The parade will step off at 10.30am from Week Street and march along the High Street, past the Town Hall, across the Bridge Gyratory and to the Memorial on The Broadway for the Service of Remembrance. The Service will include the national two minute silence at 11am and the laying of wreaths in memory of those lost in wars both past and present. The Mayor will lay the first wreath on behalf of the council and the people of Maidstone. After the Service, the parade will march back into Maidstone where the Mayor will take the salute outside the Town Hall at 11.25am.
population and we need to plan to provide enough suitable homes for a range of population types and communities. The council has been gathering population and economic data, undertaking habitats and woodlands surveys, and assessing land availability to help us realistically plan what jobs, housing and transport infrastructure we need for the next two decades, and where in the borough they could be developed. With this information, we are compiling a Local Plan, which will include a range of policies to protect our countryside and control the type and design of developments as well as outline the sites earmarked for potential development. Implementing a Local Plan will help prevent uncontrolled development in Maidstone, giving the council the power to fight developments that are not suitable for our communities. The council has not made any decisions about the sites that will be allocated for development. In the winter a six-week public consultation will take place to give residents the opportunity to get involved and submit their views on the Local Plan, helping to shape Maidstone for the next 20 years. During the first half of 2014, responses
to the local plan will be reviewed and the Local Plan could be amended as a result, with sites taken out or new ones added. A further consul- tation will take place in the summer next year giving residents a final chance to comment on the borough’s plans. The Local Plan will then be submitted
to government for approval and will also require independent examination before finally being adopted in 2015. For more information on the public consultation visit the Local Plan Progress page at
www.maidstone.gov.uk/localplan
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www.maidstone.gov.uk to report a missed bin or fly tipping and other problems.
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