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West Malling Parish Council Planning A public meeting took place at West Malling Primary School on Sunday, July 3. Seventy-five people attended the council’s presentation and a total of 125 came to the exhibition. The presentation enabled the council to explain the borough council’s call for sites house building plans until 2031 and to hear the public’s view. West Malling Parish Council would like to thank all who attended and is pleased with the response.
Accessing the parish website
www.westmallingpc.org will keep you in touch with updates and progress on the Local Plan. A new Facebook page has recently been set up.
Vandalism Anti-social behavior continues to be a problem in the West Malling area. Sadly, Macey’s Meadow experienced vandalism with a number of trees
damaged by an axe. The axe is now in the possession of the police and enquires are ongoing. A bee house has been pushed over and damaged. A newly erected CCTV at the cricket pavilion was vandalised. However, it did record the culprit which has given the police a line of enquiry. A joint action group has been formed to consider actions to help protect prime areas currently experiencing vandalism.
Residents are reminded that it is important to report any incidents to the Police using the 101 reporting line.
Allotments The police are providing a new scheme to mark allotment tools. West Malling allotment holders were the first in the area to take up the offer. A very successful marking day took place.
Macey’s Meadow A wildflower meadow is now in progress. Pupils from West
Malling Primary School will also be involved with this area during its development.
Car parking fees Following the introduction of parking fees by the borough council in May, visitor numbers are seriously down and businesses have experienced shortfalls in takings. The parish council has supported the decision to register a complaint regarding the borough council’s procedures with the Ombudsman.
Contact The parish clerk can be contacted on 01732 870872 during office hours or why not go along to one of the monthly meetings in the Village Hall in Norman Road? Full details of the 2016 schedule are available from the parish office in The Clout Institute, 9 High Street, West Malling.
East Malling and Larkfield Parish Council
THE parish council is spending much of its time at present responding to the proposed redevelopment of the Aylesford Newsprint site and the various maps and reports issued by the borough council as part of the process to update the Local Plan.
Aylesford Newsprint The second exhibition of the plans to redevelop this site has taken place at Church Farm and planning consultants acting for the administrators are putting forward plans to use most of the site for employment land but with the part at the eastern end for housing including part between the River Medway and the Railway line.
In planning policy terms, it is a brownfield site and the parish council accepts that part of the site could be used for new homes as this reduces the pressure to build on green field sites elsewhere.
The plans showed the possibility of a site for a new primary school and a small
Vacancy for a Parish Clerk: West Malling Parish Council
West Malling is a thriving local community and the Parish Council is seeking to appoint a new Clerk in September 2016.
Full details of the post are available from
clerk@westmallingpc.org or downloading from the parish council’s new website at
www.westmallingpc.org.
Closing date: August 15, 2016. Interviews: week commencing August 29, 2016.
Salary: £19,000 to £25,000 depending on the experience of the successful candidate. Hours: 37 hours per week.
local centre; the Ditton stream running through the site would be kept as a local feature; there would also be access from the Station Road end; the riverside path would be improved; and a number of landscaped open spaces created.
The consultants are still developing local highway improvements with Kent County Council and these include works to increase the capacity of the junction of Leybourne Way and the A228. Some have sought a link out to the M20 but those attending were advised this was not possible. An access to the riverside strip could be from the bottom of New Hythe lane by the old Ferry Inn building, now offices.
At the exhibition, residents were invited to fill in further comment forms and the intention is the planning consultants will submit an outline planning application later this year to Tonbridge and Malling Borough Council.
Local Plan Review The borough council
has now issued its officers’ assessments of the 250 sites put forward for housing and commercial development across the borough.
These can be seen on the council’s website and follow the guidelines issued by the Government which lays down how the Local Plan should be updated. KCC has also issued a study of the current traffic position along the A20 between Leybourne and Coldharbour,Aylesford and this is to be fed into the Local Plan review process.
It identifies the busiest section is that at the eastern end at Hermitage Lane and Quarry Wood/Hall Road
junctions.The borough has also instructed consultants to provide up to date flood risk assessments and these should be available soon.
Larkfield library An application has been made to register this site as a community asset and a decision is awaited. An earlier application for various open spaces including Carnation Green, East Malling has been accepted.
LOCAL CONTACTS
Trudy Dean, Malling Action Partnership chairman E:
trudy.dean@
kent.gov.uk T: 01732 843 119
Citizens Advice Bureau – T: 01732 440488
Tonbridge & Malling Borough Council main switchboard – T: 01732 844522
Pothole reporting – T: 08458 247800
Travel Enquiries Trains – T: 08457 484950 Nu-Venture Buses – T: 01622 882288 Arriva Buses – T: 0871 200 22 33
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