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A council’s decision to splash £600 of taxpayers’ cash on a mayoral hat during the cost-of-living crisis has been branded “ridiculous”.
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Dozens of residents are protesting against plans for 120 homes on the edge of their village.
Developers want to build 20 homes around a playing field, and say they want to make it the ‘heart of the community’.
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A 60-space town centre car park, advertised as having ‘exciting redevelopment opportunities’, has been put on the market.
Crowds gathered to call for a ceasefire in Israel and Palestine with chants of ‘we are all Palestinians’ ringing around outside a cathedral.
Plans for a new market to revitalise a town are on hold, as is as a decision to relocate a council’s HQ.
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A storage facility once owned by JC Rooks & Sons, a well-known Kent firm which went into administration, will be turned into a taxi repair workshop.
A district has laid out its blueprint for building more than 10,000 homes in the coming decades, with many earmarked for protected greenbelt land.
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A retired eye surgeon who has spent 10 years trying to bring an old telephone exchange back into use has had her plans rejected for a fourth time.
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A housebuilding giant is being forced to tear down an “alien” sales cabin erected without planning permission at a Kent beauty spot.
Opponents to plans for 110 new homes in a village say promises of a medical centre are being used as a lever to get permission.
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Residents have been left in tears at the sight of a “monolith” block of flats built behind their homes – that looks nothing like the approved scheme.
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An industrial estate is set for a huge expansion, including a new McDonald’s, amid concerns the site will attract anti-social behaviour.
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A council has been accused of being “champagne socialists” for voting to increase their allowances by 10%.
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A popular park blighted by anti-social behaviour and ailing facilities is set for a long-anticipated revamp thanks to campaigners.
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The new boss of a butchers’ shop says he’s made big improvements – after inspectors found staff using “graffiti removal fluid” to clean surfaces.
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A move to pause major housebuilding projects across a district has been defeated at a fiery meeting which drew heckles from angered spectators.
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A “miserable” sports ground plagued by vandalism and asbestos could be revamped following mounting pressure from campaigners.
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A council has called for the government to step in and help amid a GP shortage which has left towns and villages ‘grappling’ for healthcare.
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A proposed development of 105 homes and a ‘state-of-the-art’ GP surgery has been billed as a ‘community extension’ of a village in east Kent.
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