PROTESTORS against the Kent International Gateway freight depot project can make their views known at a meeting tonight.

The Kent County Council Maidstone Local Board is to discuss the application for a road/rail freight interchange across 250 acres of Kent countryside at a public meeting in the Ramada Hotel, Hollingbourne, starting at 7pm. Hundreds of people are expected to attend.

As well as Kent county councillors, there will be speakers from CPRE, StopKIG, and also Lord Sandy Bruce Lockhart, the chairman of English Heritage, and Hugh Robertson (Con), MP for Faversham and Mid Kent.

A similar meeting in July attracted an audience of 600 people. The planning application will be determined by Maidstone council in February.