Why KSP say no to road and housing for now?

The owners of Kent Science Park, who not so long ago stated that their plans were ‘All or nothing’ have gone back to the drawing board and come up with an interim five year plan.

However even these plans have the capacity to place a considerable strain on the road network and anything beyond this would certainly require significant additional infrastructure.

The construction of an M2/A2 road and housing would take years to gear up for and implement and this just is not feasible in the short term. In the long term their plans have not changed at all, this is merely a short term smoke screen from which the full plans will finally emerge.

In the current economic climate their newly revised growth forecasts will be very difficult to achieve if not impossible. The Kent Science Park provided a similar five year forecast around 4 and half years ago, and not only managed to completely fail to meet their growth targets, they actually went into reverse gear and achieved negative growth. 

Petition against the Kent Science Park proposals

The petition objecting to the Kent Science Park's expansion proposals, covering 400 acres of our countryside will not end when we hand in a copy to Swale Borough Council tomorrow, but will be available for people to add to for as long as they want to. So far we have over 3,200 signatures.

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