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98 per cent vote to kick out 9,000 new homes plan

Tracey Crouch (third right) with other campaigners against the plan. Picture: PETER STILL
Tracey Crouch (third right) with other campaigners against the plan. Picture: PETER STILL

A POLL has shown growing unease about controversial plans by a property consortium to develop an area of Kent.

Ballot papers were sent to 20,000 homes by Chatham Tories to test opinion on the 9,000-home Medway Magna scheme at Capstone Valley, near Chatham.

The final count took place at Lordswood Leisure Centre on Saturday.

Of the 3,176 people who responded 98 per cent voted no against 21 who gave the project their support.

Referendum organiser Tracey Crouch, the Conservative Party’s parliamentary spokesman for Chatham and Aylesford, said: "I was confident that we would get a resounding yes to our campaign but this shows overwhelming strength."

Medway Council deputy leader Alan Jarrett, whose ward includes Capstone, said: "I am not entirely surprised by the response. People could see this proposal is an absolute nonsense."

The results will be forwarded to council planners and developer Medway Magna, which wants to build 9,250 homes plus business units and leisure facilities on farmland between the M2 and Darland Banks in Gillingham.

An on-line protest petition organised as part of the campaign, meanwhile, has now swollen to 15,000 names.

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