Concerns farmland could become houses

West Malling resident Mark Croucher is among those determined to battle plans for homes off Offham Road

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00:00So we've got a great action group across all of the residents, particularly those that live in

00:03Offen Road and everybody shares the same view. We all appreciate the need to meet the housing

00:09targets but our goal is to try and find the most sustainable way to do that. It's very clear to us

00:15that this really is not the best place to build over 200 new homes, over 500 cars and all of the

00:22local residents and traffic that would come with that. This isn't a suitable location, it's

00:26consistently constrained from the country lanes and the narrow roads so access is really limited,

00:33services aren't available, it just is not an appropriate place to build 200 new houses.

00:39This farmland is classed as an area of outstanding natural beauty and that's just one of the reasons

00:44why residents here are opposed to the pre-application. As well as that they're worried about the amount of

00:49traffic that it could bring into the already narrow roads and some older residents say that they're

00:53worried about their health as GP numbers are already stretched. Not a good time to be ill with

00:59this GP shortages so it's really a consideration, it's not at all healthy to have this and the bend

01:08is also very bad, getting out of the driveway is going to be difficult and it really is a bad angle

01:15really to have this um all this building going on.