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Residents and their MP have urged the government to help them get a historic bridge fixed which they say would breathe new life into the town.
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An interim chief financial officer has joined a debt-ridden trust, which has a deficit of almost £60m.
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The vast majority of responses to plans for up to 70 homes on farmland were against the proposals – but some said “we need new homes”.
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A council is seeking the public’s views on proposals for “radical” parking fee hikes amid mounting financial woes.
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Plans for hundreds of new homes have been met with widespread opposition ahead of a crunch meeting.
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The level of house-building in one of the county’s leafier districts must “triple” and make most of greenfield sites, a council has been told.
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New homes destined for an abandoned railway works site - where multimillion-pound film studios are also due to be built - have been delayed.
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A four-storey block of flats has been rejected after concerns the homes would be an ‘unacceptable size’ for suitable living standards.
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A council’s decision to splash £600 of taxpayers’ cash on a mayoral hat during the cost-of-living crisis has been branded “ridiculous”.
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Dozens of residents are protesting against plans for 120 homes on the edge of their village.
Developers want to build 20 homes around a playing field, and say they want to make it the ‘heart of the community’.
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A 60-space town centre car park, advertised as having ‘exciting redevelopment opportunities’, has been put on the market.
Crowds gathered to call for a ceasefire in Israel and Palestine with chants of ‘we are all Palestinians’ ringing around outside a cathedral.
Plans for a new market to revitalise a town are on hold, as is as a decision to relocate a council’s HQ.
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A storage facility once owned by JC Rooks & Sons, a well-known Kent firm which went into administration, will be turned into a taxi repair workshop.
A district has laid out its blueprint for building more than 10,000 homes in the coming decades, with many earmarked for protected greenbelt land.
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A retired eye surgeon who has spent 10 years trying to bring an old telephone exchange back into use has had her plans rejected for a fourth time.
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A housebuilding giant is being forced to tear down an “alien” sales cabin erected without planning permission at a Kent beauty spot.
Opponents to plans for 110 new homes in a village say promises of a medical centre are being used as a lever to get permission.
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Residents have been left in tears at the sight of a “monolith” block of flats built behind their homes – that looks nothing like the approved scheme.
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