These pledges don’t add up

So we are warned by the British Heart Foundation about the heart risk from pollution levels in Kent being the highest in the south east due to its dense population (Air quality is choking the life out of us - KM January 16, 2020 ). We are also advised to plant more trees to offset some of the climate change damage.

Yet the response in Kent is to destroy ever more trees and fields to build yet more houses, thus adding more overcrowding and pollution and risk of premature death.

Something doesn’t add up. We surely need to be more joined up in our thinking.

As the population of the county looks set currently to ever increase then at the very least the national and local governments need to take control, spread any new building around the country to less dense areas and promote more greenery here. Surely they have a duty of care towards its citizens.

Kent and the south east can no longer cope.

Malcolm Hayes

The Hawthorns, Aylesford

Unless you really are ‘getting off at the next one’, please move right down the whole lower deck of the bus when all the seats are full - drivers are forever having to ask people to ‘move right along the bus please’ so that new passengers can board Don’t stand cluttering up the aisle at the front of the bus, blocking everyone else’s path as they try to get on or off. It’s inconsiderate, not sensible and probably not safe, either. Especially when people keep telling you that there are seats further along and you stay put. If the driver has to ask you to get off the bus to let someone off and