Village News

We have been informed that The Thursday Club has been forced to close. For many years the members have enjoyed a wide variety of speakers in addition to trips out and meals in local public houses.

Back in February 2006 Swale Borough Council provided a public consultation on their Transport Policy. This included the proposed changes to the train timetable as a consequence of the new service to St Pancras.

CPRE identifies Swale as the worst borough in the whole of the Thames Gateway for building on greenfield sites, with a only a meagre 52% of development on previously developed (‘brownfield’) sites.

Bapchild has been lucky enough to get through to the second round of the Kent Village of the Year competition in the Community and Business categories.

The village clean up day proved to be as popular as ever and we filled a couple of refuse freighters as well as the separate truck for metal goods

Bapchild Parish Council has been forced to report Swale Borough Council to the Information Commissioner's Office after it failed to provide information under the Freedom of Information Act.

When, or if, you are spring cleaning can you please gather together any double knitting wool that you do not want. Please give it to Mandy at 15 Morris Court Close.

BAPCHILD AND TONGE W.I. had a very successful birthday party in February attended by guests from the Bredgar Group and friends.

Thanks to the help of Peter Stuart a member of the Kent Family History Society, we have been able to expand our history section of the website.

We have been fortunate enough to win the Information Technology category of the Kent Village of the Year Competition for the second consecutive year.