Simon Bass

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Monthly Newsletter for June from Patrik Garten, our MBC Ward Councillor

Patrik writes a regular column in his own inimitable style! He is a great supporter of Wormshill and has funded new water heaters to the village hall. Read all about what he and MBC have been doing in his download

Erection of poultry shed and mobile home in AoNB off Park Lane, Wormshill

I mentioned at the Annual Village Meeting that this application had been successfully defeated but we needed to keep a close eye if it came back. At the very time I was preparing for the meeting I was also receiving an email (which I didn’t pick up until later that evening) from Maidstone BC for …

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Winter Warmer lunch for older residents

Sunday 20th January saw a ‘Winter Warmer’ lunch event held at the Village Hall, predominantly for older residents of the village.  We had 18 altogether of whom 12 were the older villagers we were aiming at. We would have had more but a few had to drop out due to illness, which is not altogether a surprise given that …

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Wormshill Play Area – grant received from Maidstone Council

Last year Maidstone Borough Council invited bids for a share of a £200k pot they had set aside for play areas they saw as important across the Borough. We were successful in our bid for £7k to fence off the play area with a picket fence, landscape the back of it as well and buy a new piece of play equipment. The …

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Kent Rural police update – September 2018

Here is the latest update from Kent Police regarding rural crimes. [pdf-embedder url=”https://www.wormshill.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Crag-Report-September-2018.pdf” title=”Crag Report September 2018″]

‘White Post’

KCC are aware of the fact that this is missing and has been since mid-April when it was first reported and then removed. Shellina Prendergast, our KCC Councillor has advised that they do plan to replace it but have had to work through the effect of considerable damage to highways over the year so far …

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Planning proposal for egg production facility at Park Farm, down Park Lane

I have just been notified about a planning proposal for an ‘Erection of a storage barn with associated mobile poultry shed and mobile home for establishment of organic egg enterprise’ on land At Park Farm, Park Lane Wormshill. The planning application is ’18/504492/FULL’ and can be most easily found on MBC’s website:- https://pa.midkent.gov.uk/online-applications/, using ‘Wormshill’ …

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Wormshill Charity Clay Pigeon Shoot – Sunday 21st October

Sunday 21st October 2018 – for further details see the calendar entry for this day

Maidstone Council – Dog Control Measures Survey

Maidstone is consulting its residents on the possibility of introducing measures to combat irresponsible behaviour and are now seeking views on the specific measures they might introduce. The proposal seeks to make the following behaviours offences under the Anti-social behaviour Crime & Policing Act 2014: – failing to put a dog on a lead when directed to …

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Reporting water leaks

If you want to report a water leak, please go to the following page:- Reporting water leaks

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