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  • Talk: The Glorious Kent Downs - Thu 23 Jan

    Local farm conservation advisor Dan Tuson, author of "The Kent Downs", will give an illustrated talk at Adisham Village Hall on Thursday 23 January. Dan has spent most of his life living and working in the East Kent Downs and is heavily involved in a Landscape Recovery Project across a network of a hundred farms.

  • Local Plan - what happens next
    Fri 27 September 2024

    Canterbury City Council's timeline for the next stages of the plan - with a new version expected in January 2025.

  • New Local Plan timetable revealed
    Canterbury City Council, Fri 20 September 2024
  • Final drop-in sessions for Local Plan
    Tue 28 May 2024

    It's the last week to get your submissions in to keep the 'Adisham New Town' out of the plan. Please come to the Village Hall for help (article also contains contact details).

  • Highland Court decision is a sad outcome for our countryside
    CPRE Kent, Mon 27 May 2024

    CPRE Kent's response to the outcome of the Judicial Review over Canterbury City Council's handling of planning permission for warehouses at Highland Court within the Kent Downs AONB. The judge found that CCC had breached it's own constitution on determining speakers at planning meetings, but in her view it was not enough to demonstrate material prejudice.

  • Decision delayed by shorthand shortage
    Fri 10 May (updated Mon 13 May 2024)

    Friday's important judgement in the Judicial Review of the "winery" at Highland Court Farm was abandoned because no "shorthand writer" was present to transcribe the judge's handwritten remarks.

  • Local Plan Consultation - How to Respond
    Fri 15 March 2024

    A brief guide to the ways you can respond and things CARE is organising to help.

  • Better bus services at heart of draft Transport Strategy
    Canterbury City Council, Fri 1 March 2024

    The council's press release on the Local Plan transport strategy - mainly about buses (city and rural), also improvements at railway stations and some new slip roads.

  • Canterbury traffic zones scrapped and 2,000 homes set for near University of Kent
    Kent Messenger logo Kentish Gazette, Fri 1 March 2024

    The Gazette's summary of the new local plan, including the removal of the bypasses that would have been funded by the "Cooting Farm Garden Community" and "Aylesham South" developments, both removed. The plan is also five years shorter, which reduces the number of homes legally required.

  • Revised draft Local Plan ditches zones and bypasses proposals
    Canterbury City Council, Fri 1 March 2024

    The council's press release announcing the new, draft Local Plan.

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