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Council concerned about Hempstead Farm call for site meeting

Questions were raised after G H Dean & Co attempted to change a condition on their planning application for a sizeable expansion of Hempstead Farm to enable them to store and distribute fruit from any farm in Kent.

We’re maintained all along that this is a distribution depot and has nothing to do with the commercial viability of Hempstead Farm, but GH Dean say it’s an agricultural process.

Cllr Bonney commented that this was how A Woods and Sons started and look at the mess that created.

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