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If you have not already responded to the Swale Borough Council 'Bearing Fruits' Consultation, then please take justa few minutes to send an email outlining your thoughts on the following points before 5pm Friday 18th May 2012

Bapchild and Tonge Church of England Primary School which once had an excellent reputation have been graded by Ofsted as inadequate.

Swale council has refused to apologise over claims it was “deceitful and misleading” in a consultation leaflet about its new Bearing Fruits strategy.

Bapchild Parish Council have lodged a formal compliant with Abdool Kara Chief Executive of Swale Borough Council following the borough wide distribution of leaflets advertising the current Core Strategy which contain blatantly untruthful information.

First we had planning applications for new buildings, then before these were let and some still haven’t even been built, there was a urgent requirement for expansion beyond the security fence to retain Ecologia and service interest from potential new tenants.

New evidence only made available today as part of the consultation exercise expels many of the myths surrounding the Southern Relief Road including the so-called benefits to the rural road network.

Fundamental aspects of Swale Borough Council’s Core Strategy are coming apart at the seams. The big gamble of relying on a couple of major developments to serve as the focal point for new employment prospects for the borough is starting to look like a very bad idea indeed.

I attended last night’s Local Development Framework meeting where the LDF Panel were due to agree the final details of what it is we are to be consulted on.

The Council have stated that inclusion of the Kent Science Park within the Core Strategy is a significant risk which could undermine the Core Strategy itself, as deliverability and therefore soundness of the plan as a whole would be compromised.

With traffic relief to the town centre its major selling point, and most of the surrounding network predicted to get far worse can this road even be justified on transport grounds?