Tag Archives: Maidstone

A council has been sent to rework plans for its own development after councillors feared they would be “building a slum.” Maidstone Borough Council submitted plans in October for the redevelopment of the former Royal Mail sorting office on Sandling Road into three blocks of flats. CGIs of the former …

Plans to redevelop part of a town left derelict for a decade have been given a boost by the government. Maidstone council has received a £2.1m grant from the Brownfield Land Release Fund to help it bring forward plans to regenerate the former Royal Mail Sorting Office site. An artist’s …

A Pentecostal church is to celebrate its new permanent home with a civic dedication ceremony. The Lighthouse Church has taken over the former St Faith’s Church in Station Road, Maidstone. New light shines on historic church Under the direction of pastor Julius Eniolu, the Lighthouse has had a presence in …

Royal Mail issues have left people in a Kent town waiting more than two weeks to receive their post. A number of streets in Snodland, near Maidstone, are having to make do with their mail arriving on an almost fortnightly basis with some having to collect their post themselves from …

A village has been left without broadband connection and landline phones following a car accident. A collision between a Royal Mail van at the junction of Chantry Road and Church Green in Marden, resulted in one of the vehicles smashing into a green telecommunications junction box. The damaged junction box …

Proposals for a £50m regeneration scheme for Maidstone town centre have been unveiled. The first artist’s impressions of Maidstone council’s plans to redevelop the former Royal Mail Sorting Office near Maidstone East were shown at a public exhibition at The Kent History and Library Centre yesterday. The town houses would …

“Ambitious” plans have been put forward to build hundreds of homes and a leisure space on a former Royal Mail sorting office. Maidstone council has developed proposals to regenerate the 3.5-acre site as part of a £50million investment. The former Royal Mail sorting office in Sandling Road, Maidstone, is earmarked …

A council has bought a former sorting office for £2.5m with plans to turn it into homes. It has been revealed that Maidstone Borough Council (MBC) has purchased the former Royal Mail sorting office site, in Sandling Road, Maidstone. Royal Mail sorting office, Sandling Road, in 2014. Picture: John Wardley …

Villagers facing a mile-long round-trip to mail their letters have been told their postbox may not be returned, because a substitute lies just 100m too close. The brick column postbox was installed on the corner of Manor Rise and and Yeoman Lane in Bearsted shortly after the Queen’s coronation, 70 …

Kent County Council has unveiled controversial plans to sell or lease part of its historic headquarters into flats and co-working spaces. Maidstone County Hall has been KCC’s HQ for more than 130 years, but some blocks of the historic building have been declared surplus to requirements. County Hall in Maidstone …