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Friends shop ‘can carry on’
MAIDSTONE Hospital has denied that redevelopment plans will push out its leading charity. Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells
NHS Trustwants to improve retail fa- cilities at the hospital’s main entrance, which may mean moving the Maid- stoneHospital League of Friends’shop and coffee shop elsewhere. Jeanette Rooke, a director at the
trust, said: “The League of Friends provides a valuable service and sup- port to the trust and is not being asked to leave Maidstone Hospital.” The league’s volunteers gave more
than 900 hours of service to the trust in the last financial year, raising hun- dreds of thousands of pounds for hos- pital equipment. It is feared an outside retailerwouldswell the hospital’s bank balance, but money would no longer go towards buying vital equipment. Acommercial retailerwould also be unlikely to run the trolley service. The trust spokesman said the prospect ofWHSmith and Costa Cof- fee, which has a presence at Tunbridge Wells Hospital in Pembury, moving in was pure speculation. The spokesman said: “The trust has
metwith the League of Friends to look atways in which they can continue to provide services at Maidstone Hospi- tal, and this includes continuing to provide a trolley service.”
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Village homes could be built on scrubland
APLANNING application has been submitted to build 55 homes on land north of Heath Road, Coxheath.
Mr M Older’s proposal is for land bounded to the east by residential gardens in Wakehurst Close and Whitebeam Drive, to the north by scrubland, and to the west by a path. The scheme includes clearance of
scrub, grassland,woodland and cop- pice habitats for the construction of a doctor’s surgery and residential units, allotments and playing fields.
Afurther application has been sub-
mitted to create 2.15 hectares of pub- lic open space in the north of the site, bounded by the village playing fields to the east and public open space next to Fairhurst Drive to the west, and Pleasant Valley Lane to the north. This would create “a green corridor to the north of this sector of Coxheath which would be in public
Beans boost for charity
STAFF at the Cut Above salon in High Street, Headcorn are full of beans after their fun-packed charity day raised more than £2,000 for Children in Need. The crowning glory was provided by owner Liz Martin who braved a soggy two-hours soaking in a bath filled with baked beans. The teamalso baked Pudsey Bear lollies and bis- cuits and created unique styles for their own bad hair day. “We would like to say a massive thank you to everyone who sponsored and supported us, “ said Liz.
ownership,” said a statement. There would be a density of 24
dwellings per hectare, “well below the density prevailing on recent hous- ing developments, notably theAvante scheme in the south-east of the vil- lage,” added the statement. The two-storey homes would have “ample off-street parking”. The site is subject to an extant per- mission for a petrol filling station, whichwas approved in 1972. The statement concluded: “The de-
velopment of this site for housing would ensure that a long-standing permission for a commercial devel- opmentwould now be extinguished. “It would ensure that a significant element of the parish council’s neigh- bourhood plan could be achieved, with the provision of much needed public open space and amenity land.” The housing application, which
will be determined by Maidstone Council, is in outline form. The open space proposal will be de- termined separately.
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