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Car parks ‘lost to developers’
THE loss of business car parks to development is changing the face of town centre parking – and one worrying side effect is a reduction in donations to local charities. Developers are taking over
empty outdated office buildings and gaining planning permissions for change of use, often to residen- tial flats or apartments. Many of these buildings have car parking attached and much of this is disappearing to meet the heavy demand for residential or other commercial uses. Most significant recent substan-
tial losses have been at: Kent House, Romney Place – now to be converted to flats with the car park off Mote Road contracted out to a commercial car park operator. The Corpus Christie development at the junction of Pudding Lane and Earl Street. Both these large car parks have been used for charity parking in the
weekends leading up to Christmas by the Rotary Club of Maidstone, whose loss could see donations re- duce from £5,000 to £2,000 this sea- son.
Unless other parks belatedly be-
come available, Rotary parking this year will be reduced to: Victoria Court, opposite Haynes in Ashford Road. Whitehead Monckton, solicitors, 74 King Street. Chaucer House, Knightrider Street – available for the first time. Rotary members and friends will
man the three parks from 8.30am to 4pm on five days: December 5, 12, 13, 19 and 20 and parkers will be in- vited to donate to local charities. Rotary co-ordinator and past president Robert Wicken (tele- phone 07976 360322), said: “The town’s car park policy will cer- tainly damage our charitable col- lections – and I fear the cumulative impact will be harmful to town cen- tre Christmas trade.”
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YOUNGSTERS are invited to name one of Kent’s new gritting lorries. The mighty mini-gritter – such as this one being tried by five-year-old Aurelia Lloyd-Morell, fromEccles – has been designed to tackle the county’s narrow roads. And with names
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The granite paving of the lower High Street is to be extended at its junction with Bishop’s Way to create a pedestrian-friendly street scene with improved crossing points. The Maidstone Joint Transport- ation Board asked project manager Russell Boorman to consider the cre- ation of a dedicated cycle lane on St Peters Bridge and to ensure that flood prevention measures were put in place.
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