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  • A million jobs for a stronger economy
    Maidstone Celebrates Apprentice Success
    Article: Jun 17, 2013

    Maidstone celebrated encouraging news for young people on Saturday when it was announced that 1,600 young people in our borough have been accepted onto apprenticeships in the last year.

    Local Liberal Democrats held a street stall in Week Street to thank young people and Maidstone businesses for making such a success of the Lib Dem scheme, whereby the government subsidies the cost of hiring apprentices.

  • Tony Harwood and family
    Together we can Protect our Town, Villages and Countryside
    Article: Jun 14, 2013


    Together we can Protect our Town, Villages and Countryside

    We are seeking to enlist residents in a campaign to protect our beautiful Borough and ensure that new housing and employment developments are built in sustainable locations.

    To this end we are asking citizens to identify those special places across our town, villages and countryside that requires policy protection in Maidstone's evolving Local Plan development blue-print.

  • Jasper Gerard with Stephen Lloyd MP at Bluebell Woods
    MP Joins Bluebell Campaign as Signatures Pass 1,000
    Article: Jun 11, 2013

    A local campaign to save the bluebell wood off Hermitage Lane received a double-boost this week. First the petition reached a thousand names to prevent a road and extra housing being driven through the wood, some of which can be traced back since the end of the ice age. Then Stephen Lloyd, Lib Dem MP for Eastbourne, joined local campaigners at the site to show his support.

  • Eclipse Business Park
    Conservative Councillors show "total disregard" for policies and force through new retail site at Junction 7
    Article: Jun 7, 2013

    Conservative Councillors have forced through a major expansion of out-of-town shopping in the foreground of the Kent Downs at M20 J7.

    The Tories ignored warnings from professional planning officers, retail policy experts and Lib Dem and Independent Councillors that a huge Next retail shed and car park scheme will undermine the commercial viability of the town centre.

    Lib Dem planning spokesman Cllr. Tony Harwood was astonished by the Conservative block vote in support of out-of-town shopping. He stated:"this short-sighted and irresponsible action is bad news for the quality of life of nearby communities, the already congested local road network and the future of the county town." He added "the Tories' total disregard for planning policies designed to put the town centre first will open the flood-gates to a big expansion in damaging out of town shopping."

    Developers will surely take note at the conduct of the Conservatives over Next at J7 and now try their luck with planning applications, rather than go through the democratic scrutiny and expense of the Local Plan process.

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