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Mars: MP urges boycott over planning row

MPs, their staff and civil servants are being urged to send Mars to Coventry. Labour MP Derek Wyatt is urging the boycott of all Mars products including: M&Ms, Snickers, Mars and Twix; Klix and Flavia...

Fantastic public response to FPOG petition

The people of Sittingbourne gave the clearest signal yet that they do not want the expansion proposed by the science park. The Five Parish Opposition Group set up stall in Sittingbourne high street yesterday...

Taking Mr Bull by the horns

SO, MR Bull from LaSalle Investment Management feels that, "on balance, people could cope" with the Kent Science Park expansion plans and the related road and housing...

There's no reason to lose more land

THERE is no excuse for more green field development in Sittingbourne with all the other land available...

Muzzled Tories have no fight

AT LAST, Cllr Jordan has been forced to react to public opinion over the Kent Science Park expansion plans, with added support from one of his council colleagues...

We'll take fight to Downing Street

OPPONENTS of Kent Science Park's plans would be prepared to go to Downing Street to make their feelings known...

Will these parish officials resign?

WHAT can I say? Double standards comes to mind. I refer to the letters from Cllr Jordan and Cllr Wright, who both claim their hands are tied because of legislation over planning matters in the council chamber...

KSP Debate Continues

THE two meetings last week on the future of Kent Science Park (KSP) could not have been more contrasting....

Meeting fails to convince opponents

RESIDENTS fighting the Kent Science Park plans remain unconvinced, despite the best efforts of developers to win them over.

Wyatt launches boycott of Mars

Support my Mars bar: Derek Wyatt MP wants people to keep these household names out of their shopping baskets.

Blaming Prezza is a smokescreen

MUCH as I love to see Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott being nailed to the wall for his incompetence and misdemeanours, I do think it might be just a little unfair for Don Jordan (Letters, October 4) to blame him totally for the greedy expansion plans of the Kent Science Park.

Sounds like 'Not in my back yard'

CLLR JORDAN'S letter (October 4) sounds a little like not in my back yard – or, in his case, front garden.

Let's be clear on the A2-M2 link

OVER the past few weeks you have published a series of letters which appear to be a well planned and co-ordinated attempt by our local MP and his Labour friends to discredit me. I shall leave your readers to make up their own minds about his motive. Meanwhile, I would like an opportunity to counter some of the propaganda he is peddling....

Swale in a muddle over Greenfield development

Swale planners comments in sharp contrast to those of the Swale Forward chief executive...

The housing numbers game

I have read so many comments from Swale Borough Councillors with regards to housing numbers and sites such as Stones Farm being forced on us by central government, that I feel compelled to displace this myth once and for all...

Be careful of the company you keep

I HAVE been following the debates in the EKG over the Kent Science Park plans and other local issues and would wish to make the following comments.

I won't apologise for opposing link

I SHOULD like the opportunity to reply to the local Conservative Party spokesman's letter (August 23), in which he requested an apology from the Labour Party for my letter opposing the proposed science park development. In my letter, I mentioned that he supported the building of an A2/M2 link road....

We must wear a gag to have a vote

IN REPLY to Adam Tolhurst's letter "Are Tories afraid of losing votes?" (Letters, September 20), I can say that the only vote I fear losing is my own.

Tory masterpiece of science fiction

CONGRATULATIONS to the chairman of Bapchild Parish Council for nailing the slippery machinations of local Tory politicians...

A shape of things to come - when?

THE OBVIOUS concerns of local residents over any increase in buildings in this industrial area of Swale have been well aired in your newspaper, as have concerns regarding uncontrolled housing developments...

We need to make ourselves heard

CONGRATULATIONS for printing letters about the proposals for the science park and associated housing. The letters were all fair and properly illustrated why the proposals should be rejected.

Are Tories afraid of losing votes?

I NOTE with interest the views of chairman of Bapchild Parish Council Andy Hudson (Letters, September 13) when he mentions the "blind panic" of Kent county councillor , Andrew Bowles the Tory leader of Swale Council and Tory press spokesman Gordon Henderson...

Biased document on development

THE following was sent to Kent Science Park in response to its public consultation document: "First, I have to say the way this questionnaire has been written and constructed is biased...

Questions for monster plotters

AT LONG last, it seems that it is beginning to dawn on the people of Swale and Sittingbourne that the potential monster that is Kent Science Park is a real threat to their wellbeing and their children's heritage...

My pride in town has disappeared

I HAVE lived in Sittingbourne all my life, and I used to be proud to live here. I have seen many changes, none in my view has benefited the town...

Sprawling estate by the back door

THE letter (East Kent Gazette, August 2) from the Labour representative for Woodstock ward implied that I supported the development of the Kent Science Park...

Unite against the Kent Science Park

ONE thing seems clear — the majority of the town seems to oppose the science park proposal...

The truth about the A2/M2 link road

Isn’t it funny to sit back and watch as Swale Councillors such as Andrew Bowles, Don Jordan and conservative spokesman Gordon Henderson operate in blind panic...

Swale fails environmental target

CPRE identifies Swale as the worst borough in the whole of the Thames Gateway for building on greenfield sites, with a only a meagre 52% of development on previously developed (‘brownfield’) sites.

The hypocrisy of Cllr Andrew Bowles

The hypocrisy of Cllr Andrew Bowles stance on the Kent Science Park is simply astounding. Following the huge public backlash against the proposals from the Science Park Andrew Bowles is ...