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Policy and Resources Committee MEETING

 

Date:       Wednesday 23 March 2022

Time:      6.30 pm

Venue:    Town Hall, High Street, Maidstone
          

Membership:

 

Councillors Mrs Blackmore, Brice, Burton (Chairman), Cooke, Cox, English, Harper, Khadka, Kimmance, Munford, Parfitt-Reid, Perry (Vice-Chairman), Mrs Ring, Round and de Wiggondene-Sheppard

 

The Chairman will assume that all Members will read the reports before attending the meeting. Officers are asked to assume the same when introducing reports.

 

AGENDA

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1.        Apologies for Absence

 

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2.        Notification of Substitute Members

 

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3.        Urgent Items

 

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4.        Notification of Visiting Members

 

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5.        Disclosures by Members and Officers

 

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6.        Disclosures of Lobbying

 

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7.        To consider whether any items should be taken in private because of the possible disclosure of exempt information.

 

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8.        Minutes of the Meeting Held on 9 February 2022

1 - 12

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9.        Presentation of Petitions

 

 

Notice has been given pursuant to Council Procedure Rule 13 of the intention to present a petition in the following terms:

Maidstone Borough Council (MBC) and Homes England are proposing a ‘new town’ development of 5,000 new homes in the middle of the Kent countryside in the village of Lenham, Kent. 

MBC’s ‘new town’ dubbed Heathlands is in an unsustainable location, half way between Maidstone and Ashford. The large majority of current residents rely heavily on private car to get about due to limited public transport with hourly train and bus services. 

The only way MBC can make their ‘new town’ look sustainable is to rob the existing Lenham village community of their 140 year old rail station on the Southeastern Railway mainline and move it 2 miles down the road to the middle of the proposed development - currently open and green countryside. 

As a community we will not let MBC brazenly steal an existing and much used community asset for their whim to be a ‘master-developer’.

MBC’s corporate objective to embrace growth and enable new infrastructure should not mean stealing infrastructure from one place and putting it in another.

 

 

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10.     Questions and answer session for members of the public (if any)

 

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11.     Questions from Members to the Chairman (if any)

 

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12.     Committee Work Programme

13

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13.     Public Sector-Led Garden Community Update

14 - 20

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14.     Further development of the Lockmeadow Leisure Complex

21 - 28

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15.     Maidstone Town Centre Strategy

29 - 48

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16.     Maidstone House - Next Steps

49 - 58

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17.     Archbishops Palace - Expressions of Interest

59 - 69

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PART II

To move that the public be excluded for the items set out in Part II of the Agenda because of the likely disclosure of exempt information for the reasons specified having applied the Public Interest Test.

 

Head of Schedule 12 A and Brief Description

 

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18.      

Exempt Appendix A (Item 16 - Maidstone House - Next Steps) - Tenancy Schedule

Paragraph 3 – Information relating to the financial or business affairs of any particular individual (including the authority holding that information)

70

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19.      

Exempt Appendices (Item 17 - Archbishops Palace - Expressions of Interest) - Balfour Hospitality Proposal and AB Team Proposal

Paragraph 3 – Information relating to the financial or business affairs of any particular individual (including the authority holding that information)

71 - 96

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20.      

Minutes (Part II) of the Meeting held on 9 February 2022

Paragraph 1 – Information relating to any individual

 

Paragraph 3 – Information relating to the financial or business affairs of any particular individual (including the authority holding that information)

97 - 98

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Information for the Public

In order to ask a question at this meeting, please call 01622 602899 or email committee@maidstone.gov.uk by 5 p.m. one clear working day before the meeting (i.e. by 5 p.m. on Monday 21 March 2022). You will need to provide the full text in writing.

 

If your question is accepted, you will be provided with instructions as to how you can access the meeting.

 

In order to make a statement in relation to an item on the agenda, please call 01622 602899 or email committee@maidstone.gov.uk by 5 p.m. one clear working day before the meeting (i.e. by 5 p.m. on Monday 21 March 2022). You will need to tell us which agenda item you wish to speak on.

 

If you require this information in an alternative format please contact us, call 01622 602899 or email committee@maidstone.gov.uk.

 

To find out more about the work of the Committee, please visit www.maidstone.gov.uk.

 

 

 

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