A firm wants to spend 16 years digging up sand right in the heart of countryside earmarked for a new garden village. Brett Aggregates Limited wants to excavate 28.5 hectares of green fields next to ...

But Natural England, a statutory consultee on such planning proposals, objected to the scheme because of fears that pollutants would enter the River Stour, which rises in Lenham, and would damage ...

The 5,000-home Heathlands Garden Community development at Lenham, which survived a major ... split between MBC and collaborator Homes England - was revealed in a council committee meeting on ...