Putting the 90s revival on hold for a bit longer

into disrepair that could have housed numerous families and/ or provided office space. It’s criminal.

ABC should be caretakers not only of their residents’ well-being but the surrounding countryside. I appreciate it’s a difficult balance but developing this site to this degree does not serve either.

If they say yes to this development, how much more difficult will it be to say no, to the next, such as the once proposed Lenacre site?

Local residents fought long and hard to limit this development to 375 houses.

What is the point of public consultations when big developers can run roughshod over any local decision?

Not only is our government becoming more autocratic (and inept) but we are now losing our local democratic rights.

I would urge everyone to fight this development and preserve what little is left of a once beautiful area of south east England.

Anna Kirke plan by proposing 500 houses with direct access to Sandyhurst Lane.

Democracy in action? How amusing!

John Faulkner all they can do is build houses in floodplains and fail to ensure that there is even a semblance of adequate infrastructure.

Just look at the appalling road situation around Ashford when the simple aspect of roads connecting to Chilmington

Green is in the same sorry state that existed when they started planning Chilmington Green.

Is it by chance or reason that the name has dropped the Green.

Or maybe it has reached the point when they finally realise that the general public will not be deluded further?

Ian Anderson

Illegal raves and Leeds United’s emphatic return to the top flight of English football - you’d be forgiven for questioning what decade you’ve woken up in.

Over the weekend, 3,000 revellers took over an abandoned RAF base near Bath and embarked on a two-day party.

There have been plenty of similar yet smaller events in Kent in recent weeks.

Back in the 90s, rave organisers had an almost vice like grip on the authorities - like bucket hat-wearing union bosses marshalling gangs of shuffling labourers.

It’s hard not to respect the acumen of those behind such giant events - I struggle to organise a barbecue.

Those who dismiss the young as work-shy layabouts should take note.

Of course, they are just adapting to an era devoid of nightclubs but Leeds’ dominance of the Championship proves that in every respect history does repeat itself.

But there are plenty of signs, too, that the nation won’t be returning to the

90s any time soon, or even to early March 2020.

In some respects this is a good thing, I had my first dose of congestion in four months at the weekend and it hit me like the first toke of a knock-off fag.

It’s also clear as supermarkets get busier how much better life was for that brief period when people did not conduct intricate games of vertical twister to extract different products from the same shelf.

And as perilous as wearing a mask with glasses is, I appreciate it is (hopefully) just a temporary sacrifice and not a very big one either.

But as with face coverings the baffling lack of clarity bosses were offered by Boris Johnson when it came to reopening offices seemed to once again pass the buck.

I’m yearning for the comforts of my desk while also fearful to find out what has become of the company pot plants.

But I’m also very willing to put up with the downsides, and surprising upsides, of lockdown life for a little bit longer if it reduces the chance of us returning to the worst parts of this bizarre world any time soon.

‘I’m yearning for the comforts of my desk, while also fearful to find out what has become of the company pot plants’

The KM Group columnist with his own look at the world