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Additional buses running

Two additional buses now run on Mondays to Fridays at 1745 hours from Downswood to Maidstone and at 1811 hours from Maidstone Bus Station to Downswood.

• Local Government Boundary Commission

  30th November 2022

  The final recommendations for future electoral arrangements for Maidstone Borough Council have been published. The Boundary Commission are proposing that Maidstone Borough Council should have 49 councillors. Those councillors should represent three single-councillor wards, 11...

• MBC Waste Collection Services - Christmas & New Year

  28th November 2022

  Maidstone Borough Council, Waste Services has advised that there will be collection round changes affecting all properties over the Christmas and New Year holidays. Bulky collections are suspended after 23 December, to restart from Tuesday 10 January. Garden waste...

• Notes from Bellway Homes Meeting 16.09.22

  23rd September 2022

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• Trees - St Nicholas Church

  26th August 2022

  Further to the concerns regarding the removal of 'ancient hedgerow' in front of St. Nicholas Church Having spoken to BH and a representative from the Church (awaiting a call back from KCC), we can confirm that the trees were the property of KCC. There was no ancient hedgerow, only shrubs that...

• Notes re meeting Bellway Homes 03.08.22

  4th August 2022

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• Wild Flowers

  3rd August 2022

  An update on the very successful wild flowers on Deringwood Drive. Two volunteers from DPC (one councillor and a councillor’s husband) will shortly be cutting back the dead flowers, which finished and dropped their seeds early due to the hot, dry spell. Following professional advice, the...

• Access During Road Works

  28th July 2022

  The parish council has approached Streetworks and Bellway Homes to ask about through traffic access during the current road works. The response we have received from BH is :'The official answer is it is closed, and no traffic is supposed to be using it, Walkers are trying to be nice and...

• Downswood Diggers Update

  26th July 2022

  Congratulations and thanks go to the Downswood Diggers who completely transformed the footpath between the Orchard Spot roundabout and the SSSI. Impassable, vegetation has been cleared - the route is now passable. It was slightly disappointing that more residents could not accept the...

• Road Closures - Downswood & Otham (Update)

  15th June 2022

  The location of the closure for Deringwood Drive is at the junction with Church Road. This means that vehicles will not be able to exit out of Church Road onto Deringwood Drive, the works will be either side of the junction between Chiltern Close and Grampian Way. There will also be utility...

• Church Road, Temporary Closure

  13th June 2022

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