Developers are bulldozing large family homes - one snapped up for £1 million more than its estimated value - to make way for a retirement block.

A new shared ownership housing development is set to start later this year after planners gave permission for the 20 new homes.

Home furnishing giant IKEA is understood to have signed a deal to open its first site in Kent.

Drone photos reveal the progress being made at a 111-acre housing development which has been under construction for two years.

Roof gardens and a public courtyard have been promised for a riverside housing development at a derelict gas works.

A growing number of residents are seeing their bids for homes in a Kent district gazumped by wealthier buyers from London, according to estate agents.

A council's vision to dwarf a government target and build 8,000 extra homes to fund the construction of two bypasses has come under heavy criticism.

How the next phase of a sprawling housing estate will look has been unveiled in designs submitted to planners.

Teenagers have created a striking mural as part of a £1m revamp of a tired and dingy bus station.

One of the county's most popular business events is bouncing back after the Covid as it prepares to welcome thousands in October.

People in a village hit back at a survey suggesting a castle adds thousands to nearby house prices, by highlighting traffic woes the venue brings.

The latest figures reveal those claiming benefits is down for July in the county - but it has risen slightly in some areas.

It once employed thousands with sites across the county but the brickworks industry is now in danger of disappearing without trace.

Plans to flatten the abandoned and fire-ravaged home of a former wrestling star are set to be rejected for the second time.

Campaigners fear Local Plan proposals for more housing will add to their flooding problems.

Traffic carrying food and goods has shot up since the pandemic as highway chiefs say case for a new route across the Thames is 'stronger than ever'.

Having waded into the asylum seeker crisis landlord Fergus Wilson has offered to sell the government 150 homes to house fleeing Afghan interpreters.

GPs warn a village surgery will be forced to close down if proposals for swanky country homes on neighbouring land are approved.

A row of houses is being knocked down months after a devastating gas explosion left two people with life-changing injuries.

Planning officers have recommended that multi-million pound plans to build a new school, 180 homes and wedding venue be given the nod.