58% of employees are paid less than or equal to the national average salary
The proposed A2/M2 link road
Why the Kent Science Park needs this road
They say "Any meaningful expansion at KSP cannot be achieved without direct access to the M2 motorway."
"In turn, a motorway access cannot be contemplated without its connection to the primary road network i.e. the A2"
Why we need this road
We don't, there is no requirement for a link road between the A2/M2. Neither Swale Borough Council as much as it would welcome this road or our Highways Authority at KCC ever produced a shred of evidence to support the construction of this road whatever its route.
Even Andrew Bowles leader of Swale Borough Council has admitted that the need for the road has yet to be proven.
Double standards from Swale Borough Council
Even though the need for the road has not been proven, the link road proposal has also been incorporated into the Swale Borough Councils Transport Strategy. But importantly deliberately omitted from the Swale Local Plan even though the two were drawn up side by side. This meant that the public had no opportunity to question or make representation on the road.
Despite an assertion by Swale Borough Council that it has rejected the KSP suggestion that a new M2/A2 link road could be paid for by increasing the number of houses and employment land around the KSP, how is such a link road to be paid for?
It is quite clear that Swale Borough Council has already accepted the principle that additional housing can help fund the Sittingbourne Northern Relief Road. Already partially funded by the East Hall Farm development and now Stones Farm has been put forward by Swale Borough Council as a second housing development to fund the road.
A number of Swale Borough Councillors and KCC councillors have already acknowledged that there is no way that this road will be paid for from government funding, yet they proceed to promote the road knowing full well that housing is the ONLY means of funding it.