Help us STOP Highsted Park!

If you want to find out more about the Five Parishes Group, come along on Saturday 29th March to Rodmersham Village Hall anytime from 10:00am until 1:00pm and have a chat with our representatives.

Download our leaflets and use reverse side as a poster

Click on any of the leaflets below to download


Have Your Say
Stockers Hill Leaflet
Donations Leaflet
Kent Wildlife Trust Leaflet
NHS Leaflet



The Five Parishes Group has existed for 20 years, providing a centralised, uniform voice for both residents and the parish councils of Bapchild, Bredgar, Milstead, Rodmersham, Tunstall and Wormshill who oppose the Highsted Park scheme.

Already this year we have assembled a professional team to assist the group fighting the Highsted Park applications.  Jointly with the Teynham & Highsted Action Group. we’ve appointed Dr Nicholas Doggett as Heritage consultant and Simon Bell  as Barrister, from The Barrister Group.  In addition, the Five Parishes Group are covering a broader number of subjects and have also appointed professionals including Continuum to act as Viability experts.  



This professional work costs money. Late last year we asked or donations to help fund these experts. To date we have raised £39,361, a great start to our target of £95,000.

Thank you to everyone who has already donated, and please take time to think about how YOU can help us even more. We have good facts, feedback and points of view to share, but we can only appoint experts to support us when we have the funds un place.  Whatever you can afford, please do donate to our campaign.

 

Highsted Park - a brief overview of the proposal


1. The application consists of two developments:

  • Highsted Park North, surrounding Bapchild, for 1,250 homes
  • Highsted Park South, around Rodmersham and HIghsted Valley, for 7,150 homes.

2. As part of the plan, new infrastructure includes:

  • a Northern Relief Raid through the countryside park at Bapchild and Tonge
  • a southern bypass Road via Bapchild, Rodmersham, Tunstall and close to Bredgar and Milstead
  • The construction of a new Junction on the M2, located within the Kent Downs National Landscape

Further pressure on already stretched local services including GPs, NHS services, and local roads.