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Micro-brewery plan for farm ‘small beer’
A FARM building at Boughton Monchelsea could be turned into a micro-brewery. BB Firmin Farms is seeking to change the use of the 257sqmshed at Campfield Farm, in Haste Hill Road. The brewery would be expected
to provide jobs for three people and brew about 164 litres a week (four casks), with the prospect of rising to nearly 300 in three years. DHA, the planning consultant,
Driver banned DOUGLASMurdoch (32), of South Lane, Sutton Valence was banned from driving for three years and or- dered to carry out 150 hours of un- paid work after he admitted drink driving. He must also pay £85 costs and a £60 victim surcharge. Mid Kent magistrates heard that
he was stopped while at the wheel of a Mitsubishi Warrior in Lower Boxley Road on January 9, and gave a breath test of 86mgs of alco- hol in 100mls of breath. The legal limit is 35mgs.
says two 4.13m high storage tanks for brewery waste would be put at the back of the building, but no other changes to the outside of the building, yard or farm access would be needed. The storage tanks would need to be emptied weekly by a tanker. It estimates the business would, initially, generate no more than 65 traffic movements, five days a week, adding: “The proposed de- velopment will provide accommo-
FERGUS Wilson says he wants to build 44 homes near one of the dwellings he owns in Boughton Monchelsea. The property developerwants to
build 25 houses south of Heath Road. “These will be £1.5 to £2 mil- lion each, gated with about half an acre of ground each,” he told Downs Mail. “North of the road [between the
village recreation ground and allot- ments] we will have 10 local needs two-bed houses and nine retire-
dation for a small business enter- prise through the re-use of this ex- isting building. “The proposal is small scale, will
not result in any unacceptable in- crease in traffic movements and will cause no harm to the character of the area nor will it detract from the character or the appearance of the building.” Maidstone Council will deter- mine the application.
‘Millionaires’ Row’ planned
ment bungalows.” Mr Wilson, who runs his prop-
erty empire with wife Judith, is still to submit a formal planning applica- tion. He added that he
believes Maidstone Council should be working to a much lower housing target than the 19,600 new homes until 2031 earmarked in its local plan.
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Manager to retire early
PAULAlcock has confirmed he is to retire as general manager of The Mall at the end of March. Mr Alcock (60) has agreed to
an early retirement package from bosses at Capital & Re- gional, in ad- vance of its proposal to redevelop the shopping centre. Mr Alcock
has been a well- known figure both
in the town, being a big oppo- nent of moving the town’s CCTV to Medway, and on the football pitch, where his 20- year career in officiating peaked with a five-year spell as a Premier League referee be- tween 1995 and 2000. Mr Alcock has been an active trustee and member of the Town Centre Management and volunteer with the Urban Blue Bus, both of which he plans to remain involved with after his retirement. He said: “I intend to remain
very busy – and very much in- volved with Maidstone.”
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