The countryside between our local communities is under threat.  The pressure for new house building in Malling is greater than ever before.  Developers have put forward 40 sites for new house building in the two parishes of West Malling and East Malling alone.

Tonbridge & Malling Borough Council will be looking at whether to include them in the new Local Plan which will set out development sites in the Borough until 2041.

The extension of the Green Belt would:

✅ Protect the historic communities of West Malling and East Malling

✅ Prevent the merging of East Malling, West Malling, Larkfield, Leybourne and Kings Hill

✅ Protect the openness of the countryside between these communities, helping to retain their rural character

This petition seeks support for an extension to the Green Belt to protect the green fields between West and East Malling and Kings Hill. This should be done by drawing the boundary broadly along Wateringbury Road from Red Hill in the south to the A20 London Road in the north via Chapman Way, Winterfield Lane, Lucks Hill and the West Malling bypass.  The Forty Acres Country Park offered by developers should be included in this new Green Belt.

Please sign the petition to send a message to TMBC that defending our countryside is a top priority for us, and it must be for their Local Plan too.

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Please make sure your postcode is fully recorded and please ignore the invitations to contribute money.  It has nothing to do with the petition.