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News Water firm to arrange new date ATTEMPTS to replace awater main along the A249 near Detling are unlikely to resume this year.
South East Water will meet county council officials on Novem- ber 3 to finalise details for manag- ing the 41,000 vehicles that use the dual carriageway every day be- tween theM2and M20 in a third at- tempt to complete the seven-week project. The water company, which was
forced to pull off the site in January this year after a string of accidents, and again on September 24, after
just three days due to traffic chaos, says it is now in a position to nego- tiate a new start date. The traffic management proposal
is still likely to involve one lane being closed northbound and one southbound, off-peak, when neces- sary.
South East Water’s project man-
ager, Steve McIntegart, admitted the project to lay 710m of pipe for just 83 properties was proving one
of its most difficult pipe replace- ment projects because of the high volume of traffic using the road throughout the year. He said: “Unfortunately, the
water supply pipe needs to feed in from the front of the properties along this stretch of the A249. “To keep disruption to a mini-
mum, we are doing as much work aswe can in the verge.However, in order to keep the public and our
Drama at home Showis paws for thought
THE Lenham Players present their latest production, Quartet by Ronald Harwood, in Lenham Com- munity Centre on Friday and Sat- urday, November 7 and 8. The play is set in a home for re-
tired musicians which holds an an- nual celebration of Verdi’s birthday, but a new resident threat- ens to upset the event. Members of the audience are in-
vited to bring their own drinks and snacks. Parking is available. Tickets are £9 each from Len Valley News in the High Street or from the com- munity centre on weekday morn- ings, call 01622 853800.
MOREthan 20,000 visitors and 12,000 dogs visited the Paws in the Park Au- tumn Show 2014 at The Kent Showground in Detling. The show raised more than £5,000
for charities including the Royal Mars- den Cancer Charity, German Shepherd Rescue Elite, Soldiers Off the Street and ALSAR Lowland Rescue. Visitors enjoyedattractions including
flyball, the Dogstable course, search and rescue, and Mini Paws Playstation. Weekend visitors enjoyed camping
with great facilities, and entertainment including the doggy fancy dress com- petition and a quiz. The K9 Aquazone was busy , with lots of splashes and some great jumps in the Dash ‘n’ Splash pools.
workforce safe on this very busy and fast road, it will be necessary to close one lane. This is unavoidable.” He added that the existing pipe
had burst five times in the past five years, flooding the carriageway and leaving homeowners and busi- nesses without water. The new pipeline will cost £240,000. He added: “I would like to apolo-
gise in advance for any disuption this work may cause.”
Home refused
MAIDSTONE Council has turned down an application for a four-bed- room home at The Nursery in Dunn Street, Bredhurst. The application requested an oc- cupational manager’s dwelling as- sociated with business uses on the site including a restaurant. The borough council’s planning department refused the application for a lack of “adequate justifica- tion” to create a home in the Kent Downs Area of Outstanding Natu- ral
Beauty.Adecision notice said it would be “an unacceptable addi- tion to sporadic development in a nationally important landscape”.
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