Protecting our green spaces from inappropriate housing developments and safeguarding our precious environment.

April 2024, Maidstone/Malling, Kent: The fight against overdevelopment in the Hermitage Lane area stepped up a gear after a packed public meeting and official opposition from Helen Grant MP last week.

My team and I have been as busy as ever throughout March with a wide array of activities in Parliament, Maidstone, and the Weald. You can read my full April newsletter here.    

A statement regarding the new ‘Bradbourne’ planning application for up to 1300 houses between Hermitage Lane and Kiln Barn Road, Ditton: These housing development proposals will impose impossible new pressures on local infrastructure that is already creaking at its limits. The plan will also remov

Protecting our green spaces from inappropriate housing developments and safeguarding our precious environment have always been priorities for me. That is why gaining village green status for the field at Bunyards Farm in Allington is a campaign I am very pleased to be supporting. If successful, th

Maidstone & The Weald MP Helen Grant MP and Chatham & Aylesford MP Tracey Crouch have joined together to express concern about Kent County Council’s proposal to include Oaken Wood in its Mineral Sites Plan.  The MPs have looked at the proposals and are unconvinced of the technical evide

At a roundtable meeting convened by Maidstone & The Weald MP Helen Grant on Monday 7th December, the Minister of State for Rail pledged to bring forward a reliable date for the delivery of the long-awaited City Thameslink Service from Maidstone East in early 2021. The roundtable was attended by

‘House building’ always features very heavily in my post bag and it’s not difficult to understand why; the building of new homes impacts upon so many aspects of our everyday life, changing our environment and revising familiar localities permanently.

Since I became the MP for Maidstone and The Weald in 2010, I have been visibly and publicly opposed to the number of houses which central Government have imposed on our part of Kent.

Last week in my piece for the online edition of Downs Mail I heralded a meeting scheduled for last Thursday (16th July), between Maidstone Borough Council (MBC) and officials from the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, where MBC were seeking to mitigate the heavy housing burden p

Aside from the all-encompassing omnipresence of Brexit and Covid-19 these last few months, the single biggest issue raised with me by the people of Maidstone and The Weald concerns the building of new houses across our gorgeous, green garden of England.  The controversially high number finally