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downsmail.co.uk Maidstone North Edition Maidstone North Edition


Maidstone & Malling’s No. 1 newspaper


October 2017 ‘£1m win will help care for Charloe’


A MAIDSTONE couple whose baby daugh- ter suffers from a “life-changing but not life- threatening” condition have scooped £1


million on the National Lottery. Adam and Amy Pryor’s numbers came up just when the family ‘s future started to look a bit grim as Charlotte, who is eight months, needs constant one-to-one care and frequent hospital visits.


Adam said: "I don’t believe in fate but on this occasion I think I might, the timing of our win really couldn’t have been better. “Charlotte needs almost constant one-to- one care and has frequent hospital appoint- ments so we had decided that Amy would not return to work at the end of the month as originally planned.” 3


MP urges minister to review local plan


MAIDSTONE MP Helen Whately has called on the local government secretary of state Sajid Javid to halt the Local Plan.


The Local Plan, which proposes


17,000newhomes and has been pro- nounced "sound" by a government inspector, is set to be put before the planning committee for approval on September 27. Mrs Whately is concerned the plan


– which sets out development policy for the next 15 years – will harm at- tractions like Leeds Castle and leave villages such as Lenham, Harriet- sham and Headcorn unable to cope with the extra numbers. But the Tory MP for Faversham


and Mid Kent was warned she is playing a "high risk" game as the communities and local government secretary Mr Javid could easily in- crease the housing allocation or


leave the borough at the mercy of speculative applications. On Leeds Castle, Mrs Whately


wrote: “The specific issue is the in- clusion in the plan of an industrial employment site at Woodcut Farm, a rural location near to junction 8 of the M20, and on the approach to the castle…Developing this site would have far-reaching ramifications for the countryside and heritage assets.” Mrs Whately is worried the Local


Plan does not include sufficient in- vestment in roads. She said: “Many thousands of houses are being built in this area, without meaningful development of roads (or any alternative to car trans- port) – when congestion is already


affecting the ability of residents to travel to and from work or access services in and around Maidstone. "I strongly question whether these locations can be deemed sustainable for this level of housing.” Mrs Whately added: “I wish we


could have solved this locally, but we’re running out of time. That’s why I have asked the secretary of state to personally intervene." MBC's Cllr Clive English, chair-


man of the planning committee, warned Mrs Whately her appeal to Mr Javidwas "high risk". He added: "Calling in the Local


Plan will not necessarily mean there will be a reduction in housing num- bers - it could go the otherway.


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"The delays caused by calling it in mean that developers would slip any number of applications through as we would no longer have the powers to refuse them as we would- n’t have an emerging Local Plan. "It would be good if the secretary of state did reduce the numbers, but this rarely happens. It's a bit of a high risk strategy."


webexpand.co.uk Obituaries 34 Parish Councils 37


IT HAS been agreed that a CCTV camera owned by the parish council in Tovil should not have been removed from its location in Wharf Road/Church Road.


Crime Reports 37


EIGHTEEN laurel bushes were stolen from gardens in Allington; a bicycle was taken from outside a property in Upper Fant Road; the clutch cable on a motorbike was cut in Hart Street; a rear tyre was damaged on a people carrier in Hastings Road; a car was broken into in Union Street but nothing was stolen; two council bins were stolen in Allen Street; sunglasses and a mobile telephone in Consort Close.


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News M2 works planned


MAJOR works to the M2 at J5 have been welcomed but will bring disruption locally. 4


Jason at the Hazlitt


JASON Donovan is to appear at the Hazlitt Theatre next year in a special one-off show celebrating his career.


8 MP lashes far right


MAIDSTONE MP Helen Grant has attacked far right group Britain First. 10


Shop closure


THE popular designer clothes shop, Zee & Co, in Maidstone has closed.


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