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The following is taken from the update on the Northern Relief Road Scheme by KCC Head of Transportation and Development on behalf of the Swale Joint Transportation Board

A motion has been passed by members of the Swale Joint Transportation Board (SJTB) urging the authority to work with the group to create an “up and ready plan” to extend the route to the A2.

The Council have spent literally hundreds of thousands of pounds on traffic modelling work in order to substantiate their grand plans for Sittingbourne’s future. So what happens when the modelling work proves that it isn’t going to work, they plough on regardless.

In a surprise move Kent Highways have just informed us that completing the Northern Relief Road to connect with the A2 in Bapchild is no longer essential to deliver the growth planned in the Local Plan up to 2031.

We’ve had an amazing response from residents regarding Stones Farm and my phone has been very busy indeed, so sorry if the line has been engaged. Naturally we have been asked a lot of questions about this; here we hope to answer some common ones.

This is to let you know that, as part of the on-going maintenance and improvement of the highway network, Kent County Council will be resurfacing London Road at the junction with Hempstead Lane.

Outline planning application for the hugely controversial development of Stones Farm in Bapchild is out for public consultation now.

It has been more than 10 years since the Parish Council launched this website and during that time a lot has changed in Bapchild and inevitably some aspects of the site have become dated.

The Hall’s Management Committee would like to hear your comments on what sort of fund raising events you would support

Bapchild and Tonge residents gathered on Sunday to see a new Village Hall sign unveiled. The Hall, in School Lane, Bapchild is celebrating being on its present site for 25 years.