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Correspondent: Jean Watson Mob:
07966 361434 Tel: 01622 687053 Get Together: This over 50’s Get Together group next meet on Wednesday, February 7 in the Baptist Church for tea and a ahat, perhaps play a few games and spend a time of fellowship together with some refreshments. From 2.30-4pm. New members welcome. Wit and wisdom: A quiz night takes place on Saturdaym February 17 at St Nicholas Church starting at 7.30pm. Teams of six to eight, but individuals welcome. Entry £5 per person. Tea and coffee provided. Take your own drinks. To book phone 01622 204569. Funds in aid of The Children’s Society. Alpha Course starting: This weekly course, looking at the basics of the Christian faith, will be starting on Monday, February 26 in St Nicholas Church. The course is for those that are new to Church, those that come occasionally, those that may have never stepped foot in a church but have questions and for those that feel they need to re-connect with the basics. Application forms are available at the back of Church. Return the completed application by February 18 to either the Revs Barry or Chris or drop it into the church office. Messy fun: The next Messy Churchc themed with Love, will be on Saturday, February 17 from 11am1.30pm in St Nicholas Church and church halls. The cost is £3 per person or £10 per family to include lunch. For details or to book contact Fiona on 07951 777854, Latest booking date is Wednesday, February 14. Experience Taize: A Service of prayer, song and contemplation in St Nicholas Church on Sunday, February 25 at 5pm. Taize worship is intended to be meditative and thought provoking. options and adjusting the timing of traffic lights, particularly to minimise the queueing on the M2 slip road for safety reasons and particularly in view of any proposed Lower Thames crossing into Kent. Boxley Parish Council will be monitoring the situation to ensure it does not get ‘lost’. The full story can be found on the website www.boxleyparishcouncil.org.uk that, as in previous years, the clerk would write to confirm the tasks and that they should only be carried out upon specific request. Planning: Chart Mill, Chart Hill Road, retrospective application for conversion of open bayed car shed/garage into a home gym. Approved. Apple Cottage, 8 Chart Hill Road, erection of a double garage. Approved. Chart Hall Farm, Green Lane, minor amendments to erection of a single storey extension approved under 17/500115/full – including removal of previously proposed side door, inclusion of oak frame internally; removal of cavity wall to north side of utility room to be rebuilt in same construction as extension; replacement of sunroom floor. Approved. Chart View, Chart Hill Road, two static caravans on traveller site: Refuse and report to planning committee. Three residents attended to present objections to the application. The application fails to provide information pertaining to the gypsy and traveller status of those who might use the two additional pitches, (the application is from the individual given original approval on this land but the new residents are unspecified – the application appears to be speculative for financial gain). The application is incomplete and fails to provide details on the following: Management of foul water and sewage; hard standing and vehicle parking; size and nature of new accommodation and facilities; landscaping and retention of existing boundary hedging and trees; means of access to the site. The following decisions were noted from the borough council: Farley, Brishing Road, retrospective change agricultural outbuilding into a dwelling and add an extension. Permitted. Heronden, Chart Hill Road, retrospective relocation of house and additional Velux roof lights. Permitted. Lingfield, Chart Road, demolition of conservatory and erection of a single storey rear extension and first floor side extension. Loft conversion with alterations to roof and four Velux windows. Permitted. Heronden, Chart Hill Road, demolition of the single storey barns on the south west side of the courtyard and rebuilding them. Permitted. Lambs Cross, Chart Hill Road, erection of detached three bay carport with ancillary room above. Permitted. Fleet Court, Brishing Road, demolition and erection of replacement part two storey part single storey extension. Permitted. Land rear of Chart View off Chart Hill Road, change of use of land to use as a residential caravan site for two gypsy families each with two caravans, of which no more than one would be a static mobile home, together with erection of two amenity buildings, laying of hardstanding and formation of new access. Refused. Horseshoe Paddock, Chart Hill Road, use of land as a residential gypsy site with the stationing of two mobile homes, outbuildings and stable block, associated hardstanding, boundary wall and gates, part retrospective. Refused. Horseshoe Paddock, Chart Hill Road, change of use of land for stationing mobile home. Refused. River Farm, Chart Hill Road, erection of a controlled atmosphere stores, covered access way, dispatch and loading bay extension and fruit processing area. Application withdrawn.