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MP damns KCC's plans for science and housing

THE EXPANSION of Kent Science Park and its associated housing is a "wretched scheme", says Sittingbourne and Sheppey MP Derek Wyatt.

Swale Forward Meeting

Bapchild Parish Council held a meeting with Swale Forward on the 6th January, to discuss the implications of its regeneration programme for Bapchild and the wider community. Primarily we wished to discuss the final phase of the Northern Relief Road and the Kent Science Park expansion.

Science park offers a great opportunity

FOLLOWING D Stuart's views (Letters, December 1), your readers are entitled to a more factual and less jaundiced precis of the opportunities afforded by the Kent Science Park at Woodstock and those being realised at Kings Hill Business Park.

Fooled by science park publicity

AFTER nearly a year of campaigning, it was comforting to read that, at long last, it is dawning on our local politicians that they were hoodwinked by the so-called Kent Science Park publicity machine.

Twice daily hell on quiet leafy lanes

FOR THE most part, you might be forgiven for thinking Woodstock Road and Ruins Barn Road are quiet, leafy lanes out the back of Sittingbourne.

We've seen these Utopias before

AS THE debate about the proposed science park at Woodstock continues, it may be instructive to look at a similar grand idea that took place in the not-too-distant past.

He's a clear and Prezza danger

I FEEL I must respond, once again, to inaccuracies in comments raised on your letters page. Gordon Henderson, as far as I can recall, has never called the Shell Research site the Kent Science Park.

Time for another Wyatt's revolt

MORE than 450 years ago, when Wyatt's rebellion broke out in Kent, the government in Whitehall began to quake.

Spin, hype and destruction

WHAT a Christmas tale! It was so exciting to hear that our three visionaries, Messrs Bowles, Edwards and McDonald, have seen our future and believe that we are undergoing "one of the most exciting periods in Swale's history"

Where's the science bit?

SO, GORDON Henderson believes that the expansion of the Kent Science Park will benefit the people of Sittingbourne and will provide employment opportunities.

Science Park will be like new town

My brother has alerted me to the proposed plans to extend the science park at Woodstock.

Long live weeds and wilderness

We were at the meeting at The Swallows on September 24 to discuss the Kent Science Park proposals and the building of a southern relief road to join with the M2.

New road would destroy county

I should like to thank the MP Derek Wyatt for his attack on the council for a new link to the M2. Why is this council so determined to destroy the original magical county around Sittingbourne?

A question of access

Have the rules about access to the M2 been altered? Living in Faversham when the Western Link in Faversham was first mooted, access to the M2 was planned but was not allowed because it was too near the junction with the Ashford Road.

Science park will be a disaster

Readers may be interested to see a copy of the letter we have sent to Swale Council planning department about the proposed development of Sittingbourne Science Park.

Money talks, locals demand to be heard

Thank you for bringing more light to the proposed idea of expanding the newly-named Kent Science Park.

Town waking up to becoming dormitory

I am sure your readers choked with disbelief when they read your report (May 19) on the proposed expansion of the research centre and found that the number of people opposed to it was “actually quite small”. One has to wonder under which sand dune the developers have been burying their heads.

Private benefit v public cost

The slick promotion and presentation of the Kent Science Park project appears to ignore several basic facts, which include the following:

Issues being swept under the carpet.

I read Richard Jones’ article (May 19) and was very angry. The article is obviously one-sided and no mention was made of the objections to the proposals.

Still time to turn the tide

How suitably vague were Messrs Bull, Sharp and Reynolds in outlining their plans for the future of the Kent Science Park and ultimately Swale?

Swale Local Board meeting

At the public meeting of the Swale Local Board at Sittingbourne Community College last night, Councillor Keith Ferrin announced to a large audience of local residents that his position had now changed with regard to the Kent Science Park’s proposals.

'Zero homes' outburst on Science Park plan

ZERO - that is the number of houses that should be built as part of controversial plans to expand Kent Science Park, formerly Sittingbourne Research Centre

Blinkered vision or a real way forward?

Perhaps you have read the recent article in the East Kent Gazette in which Swale Forward share their vision for the regeneration of our Town. But could this vision be blinded in the headlong rush to acquire and spend the Thames Gateway funding while it lasts.

Sorting the fact from fiction

We’ve probably had more press coverage in that last few days than at any other time during this campaign. With Kent County councillor Keith Ferrin calling the proposed development of 5,000 homes the equivalent of a modern day slum..

Campaigners raise £11,000 to fight proposals

A FIGHTING fund of some £11,000 has already been raised by campaigners opposed to the expansion plans.

Science park will put town on global map

CLAIMS that thousands of new homes planned for the outskirts of Sittingbourne would be a "modern day slum" have been strongly denied.

Slum attack over the science park

Thousands of homes planned on the outskirts of Sittingbourne would be the modern day equivalent of a slum, according to a county councillor.

Why do we object?

The five parishes who oppose the Kent Science Park expansion plans, which, includes Bapchild, are to hold a public meeting to explain how the expansion of the park could affect residents.

Exploding the bio-myth

It all started fairly innocently with a change of name from Sittingbourne Research Centre to the Kent Science Park, nothing too bad in that apart from frustrating many of the tenants on site who had to get all their stationery changed.

KSP selects Bapchild for enhancement

Robert Rummey managing director of Rummey Design Associates explained at last evenings meeting that Bapchild has been selected for enhancement. This includes 5,000 houses a new secondary school and four new primary schools.