Robert Marshall-Andrews

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Council's proposed sale of lands at Compass Close and the former Priestfields' Nursery near Watts Meadow

Medway Council's Labour Group and myself are opposing the Conservative council's decision to sell these important green spaces for housing and / or industrial developments. Without consulting local residents this administration took a decision to sell off the lands. We are campaigning that the two sites be retained as open space and that local people be given a say in its future.

A meeting open to all residents is being held next Tuesday, 25 November, to discuss the growing threat to our green spaces. The meeting at St Justus Church, corner of The Fairway & Anchor Rd, will start at 7.30 pm.

Bob Marshall-Andrews said, "Below you will find a copy of my recent letter to the Conservative Leader of Medway Council in which I raise my strongly felt concerns on the proposed sale of Priestfields' Nursery and Compass Close.

"The council has ignored the Government's recent paper that gave recommendations on the preserving and providing of Urban Green Spaces. Rather than developing these green areas attention should be paid to reducing the excessive number of abandoned habitable homes in Medway and seeking the development of brownfield sites first, to which the Government has handed a considerable contribution."

Cllr Chambers and follow conservative councillors have been invited by residents to attend Tuesday's meeting.