MOTORISTS will be required to slow down on Islingham Farm Road leading to Chattenden Primary School following the creation of a new 20mph zone. The aim is to reduce vehicle speeds and to make it safer for children to walk to school.

When several Wainscott Road residents received notification from Crest Nicholson, stating that is was no longer their intention to reinstate the fence separating their properties from the playing fields at Choir Close, Liberty Park, your local councillors leapt into action. Within weeks, the area was cleared and a brand new, gated fence was installed, and the […]

Work has begun on the upgrade of Strood Railway Station which will see almost £2.7 million of private investment in order to bring it into the 21st century. The Station, which first opened in 1856, will have a temporary ticket office, which will be in place by Monday 13th March and all platforms will remain […]

The Great British Spring Clean was a campaign with one simple ambition: to bring together people from across the country to clear up the litter that blights our towns, villages, countryside and coastline. Your local councillors, Gary Etheridge, Peter Hicks and John Williams, joined Senior Community Wardens to become “litter heroes”, in Strood Rural.

On many of our roads and especially across the Warren Wood estate, there is often insufficient parking for residents’ vehicles and inevitably parking occurs across verges and on corners. Responding to concerns raised by residents, the ward councillors linked up with MHS Homes who own and manage a number of the verged areas on the […]

We have had a few reports over the last couple of years from visitors who have had trouble finding the Warren Wood Social Club which is tucked away off a greened close on the main Warren Wood Road and not easy to see. The Club too reported complaints from visitors, many of whom were attending […]

Highway Engineers have informed the ward members that it will be necessary to close the Huntsmans Corner junction on Maidstone Road this weekend to carry out emergency repairs and investigations into the ongoing issues with the road surface and drainage at this junction. Please see the attached information letter for further information. Diversions will be […]

Alongside the Conservative-run Council’s longstanding commitment to retain Rochester Airport and invest in its dilapidated infrastructure, and as well as creating an exciting new heritage facility and improved public access, was the creation of the Rochester Airport Technology Park down in the little used north west corner of the Airport site. This is one of […]

The Medway Messenger has reported how Cllr Tranter and Cllr Iles recently set to task at cleaning up some of the litter in their local areas.

The Horsted Valley in our Rochester South and Horsted ward is a wonderful expanse of chalk grassland, open fields, scrub and woodland that runs from Davis Estate down to the ward’s border at Ridgeway Banks / Walderslade Road. Much valued by dog walkers and with its own Friends Group, the ward councillors are very keen […]