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Dirty Tricks Campaign By Kent Science Park




The Five Parishes Opposition Group is shocked that the management of the Kent Science Park have launched a dirty tricks campaign apparently intended to undermine the public consultation on Swale Borough Council's future Core Strategy plans.

Public statements by FPOG have always recognised the important contribution which the KSP can make to Swale's economy. That contribution can be achieved without massive expansion outside of the Park's security fence, obliterating hundreds of acres of prime countryside.

KSP management must withdraw their public statement accusing FPOG of campaigning to close the Park and acknowledge the statement as untruthful.



Swale’s ‘Pick Your Own’ Consultation


Have your say on Council’s plans for the next 20 years which include the Kent Science Park.

Information, exhibition dates, etc
www.swale.gov.uk/pyo

For the majority of exvidence based documentation please visit
www.swale.gov.uk/ldf

The consultation ends at 5:00pm on 14th March 2011. 
 



Five Parishes Opposition Group members take petition to Downing Street. From Left to right Dr Hilary Newport CPRE, Beverley Willis, Derek Wyatt MP, Monique Bonney, David Hardy, Sue Sills and Andy Hudson Five Parishes Opposition Group members take petition to Downing Street. From Left to right Dr Hilary Newport CPRE, Beverley Willis, Derek Wyatt MP, Monique Bonney, David Hardy, Sue Sills and Andy Hudson
18.12.11

Expansion of the Kent Science Park highly unlikely in the next 20 years according to Swale Borough Council

The Council have stated that inclusion of the Kent Science Park within the Core Strategy is a significant risk which could undermine the Core Strategy itself, as deliverability and therefore soundness of the plan as a whole would be compromised.

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18.12.11

Failure to attract new tenants put down to access issues.

Swale Borough Council has reported that it is their understanding that the Kent Science Park’s failure to enact on previously agreed planning applications is due to the lack of access.
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17.12.11

Costing in excess of £100 million to create just 1,250 local jobs by 2056 is the Sittingbourne Southern Relief Road worth it?

With traffic relief to the town centre its major selling point, and most of the surrounding network predicted to get far worse can this road even be justified on transport grounds?

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16.12.11

Bad news for Swale as the Borough Council predicts that only a third of jobs will go to locals

As the Borough Council weighs up the evidence for expanding the Kent Science Park, it is revealed that in line with the traffic modelling projections, the prediction is that a vast majority of the planned jobs would go to people from outside Swale.
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06.11.11

Finally the evidence that exposes the myths surrounding the benefits of the Southern Relief Road

We can finally put to bed some of the myths that a Sittingbourne Southern Relief Road will be a significant factor in regenerating Swale’s fortunes.

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26.10.11

'No more relief roads for another 20 years'

THERE will be no major congestion-busting additions to Sittingbourne's road network over the next 10 years, it has been suggested.
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14.10.11

Relief road plans lead to clash over congestion

BUILDING the Sittingbourne Southern Relief Road (SSRR) will not necessarily stop congestion in the borough.
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The key proposals and why we object


The housing

5,000 houses would be built purely to fund a road that the Kent Science Park requires in order to expand the science park.

This is not about meeting the requirements of local people or people moving to the area. We are not derpriving anyone of new homes as the borough has already suggested a housing quota of 13,500 new homes in the next twenty years would be sufficient.


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The expansion

The Kent Science Park wishes to expand its site to four times its present size with the view of creating upto 4,800 new jobs. We say lets build on the back of proven success and make the most of the present site before considering expansion.

The housing would create around 9,000 people seeking employment creating a huge job deficit. At present the owners have failed to deliver on all previous growth targets, currently averaging just 28.5 jobs per annum over the last seven years.


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The road

A key part of Swale Borough Councils Core Strategy the requirement for the road does not yet exist, even the council leader Andrew Bowles has said “the need for the road has yet to be proven”.

Unable to deal with the Northern Relief Road fiasco which is only three quarters complete and without funding for the final quarter of its length, Swale Borough Council are desparate to push ahead with another major road project without any supporting evidence on which to base such a decision.


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