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27 April 2024
Kent Online
Network Rail confirm no budget for 5,000 Lenham Heath homes development by MBC
20 April 2024
Kent Live
Property protestors launch £50k legal fund appeal for Lenham Heath campaign
17 April 2024
Kent Online
SOHL campaigners launch £50k appeal to fight garden village
25 August 2023
Kent Online
Campaigners call for withheld traffic surveys into plans for 5000 homes
5 March 2022
BBC SE
Housing Pressures
5 March 2022
BBC SE
Housing Delays
22 January 2022
Kent Live
Heathlands Garden Settlement: The 5,000 home plan threatening to wipe out Kent's fish population
22 January 2022
Kent Online
Heathland Garden Village at Lenham will 'put fishing at risk' on the Stour
22 January 2022
ITV Meridian
Fisheries along the River Stour object to MBC's plans
5 October 2021
KMTV
Maidstone campaigners say they're being ignored on row over housing
25 June 2021
Downs Mail
Lawyers demand landowners' sites be dropped officially from scheme
8 April 2021
Kent Online
Maidstone council delays release of masterplan for Heathland
3 November 2020
Kent Online
Garden village in jeopardy
2 November 2020
Downs Mail
Maidstone Borough Councils faces legal action by landowners
3 October 2020
Meridian TV
Lenham locals fear loss of green space over 4000 homes plans
1 October 2020
KMTV
Kent MPs hits out at MBC's housing plans
18 September 2020
BBC SE
Interview with Lenham Parish Council (1)
23 July 2020
Kent Online
Fresh masterplan for Heathlands Garden Community
22 June 2020
Kent Online
Campaigners hit out as thousands of homes could be built next to a quarry near Lenham and the M20
22 June 2020
Downs Mail
EXCLUSIVE: Borough council admits quarry will delay Lenham housing by 23 years
17 June 2020
Downs Mail
Landowners backing Lenham Heath garden village
16 June 2020
BBC
Garden villages locking-in car dependency
4 May 2020
Downs Mail
SOHL pledges to continue to fight MBC on Lenham Heath garden village
30 April 2020
Kent Online
Maidstone Borough Council pursue M20 junction for new Lenham Heath homes scheme
30 April 2020
Downs Mail
MP Helen Whately reacts to MBC's decision to endorse plans for 'garden village'
30 April 2020
KMTV
Maidstone Borough council press on with 5000-home plans in Lenham despite fierce opposition
29 April 2020
Downs Mail
MBC votes strongly to pursue new Lenham Heath garden village
27 April 2020
Kent Online
First Maidstone Borough Council virtual meeting will discuss next stage of Heathlands garden village development in Lenham
22 April 2020
Downs Mail
Maidstone Borough Council progresses on Lenham Heath garden community
29 February 2020
Kent Online
Parish council angry at lack of consultation on Heathlands garden village proposal
28 February 2020
Downs Mail
Ashford MP Damian Green says MBC 5,000 house plan 'is wrong'
29 January 2020
KMTV
Fury over unanswered questions about Lenham garden city
25 January 2020
Downs Mail
LENHAM HEATH: MBC top brass face public anger over 5,000 homes scheme - details
24 January 2020
Kent Messenger
MP and council chiefs clash over controversial 5,000-home garden community plans for Lenham Heath
21 January 2020
Downs Mail
LENHAM HEATH: Now the Labour group leader pulls out of Friday's public meeting
20 January 2020
Downs Mail
LENHAM HEATH: Lib Dem council bosses isolated on eve of public meeting on homes
15 January 2020
Downs Mail
LENHAM HOUSING: Public meeting on January 24 - details
15 January 2020
Kent Messenger
Public meeting in Lenham to discuss 'garden community'
7 January 2020
Kent Messenger
Senior council boss appointed to develop controversial 5,000-home Lenham garden community proposal
3 January 2020
Downs Mail
Borough council appoints director to 'develop' 5,000 Lenham homes scheme
19 December 2019
Downs Mail
HOUSING CRISIS: Tories force council to take the case to government
18 December 2019
Kent Messenger
SOHL campaigners protest outside Maidstone Town Hall over plans for Lenham Heath
18 December 2019
KMTV
Protest set to take place over the amount of housing planned in Maidstone
17 December 2019
Kent Messenger
Rallying cry over 'impossible' Maidstone housing targets as Lenham campaigners Save Our Heath Lands plan protest
10 December 2019
Downs Mail
HOUSING PROTEST: Demo at town hall against 28,000 homes by Lib Dems at council
19 November 2019
Downs Mail
LENHAM HEATH: Residents show opposition against MBC plan for 5,000 houses
8 November 2019
Downs Mail
LENHAM HEATH: Residents organise walk over Lib Dem council's 5,000 homes plan
4 November 2019
Kent Messenger
Swathes of rural land in Maidstone put forward for development after council call for sites
25 October 2019
Downs Mail
HOUSING: Keep our villages special, pleads activist Simon Webb
15 October 2019
Downs Mail
LENHAM HEATH Massive show of strength as fight launched against 5000 homes
15 October 2019
Kent Messenger
Save Our Heath Location opposition group meets to discuss concerns over proposed Lenham garden community
11 October 2019
Downs Mail
REVEALED: True extent of building land in council's secret 'call for sites'
3 October 2019
Downs Mail
HOUSING: Council soon to disclose 330 sites under threat of development
3 October 2019
Downs Mail
LENHAM HEATH: 5,000 homes plan 'could cost me my farm' - landowner
19 September 2019
Downs Mail
HOUSING: Council announces 5,000 homes for Lenham as master developer
18 September 2019
Kent Messenger
Maidstone council discusses building thousands of homes in a garden community development
11 June 2019
Kent Messenger
Maidstone council leader urged to abandon 'culture of secrecy' over housing plans
10 June 2019
Downs Mail
Tories call on Lib Dem council leader to 'come clean' over Lenham homes plan
23 May 2019
Downs Mail
Lenham could be hit with 5,000 new homes in council's call for sites