Plans for Highsted Park near Sittingbourne have been sent to the government to decide on

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00:00You get a population of around 20,000 people, which is an awful lot of people to house on

00:08farmland with no infrastructure. So I think people are thinking that, one, this is best

00:14and most versatile agricultural land that should have protection from the government, and two,

00:22you know, we know that our sewage works are already struggling, we know that our GPs are

00:28already struggling with people. The harmful impacts would be particularly noticeable from

00:34the rights-of-way. The usability of Tongue Country Park and the character and appearance

00:40of the rural landscape would be harmed. Views over the fields would be lost,

00:44and even proposed planting to screen the development would change the character of the

00:48area. Again, had the council been the determining authority, there would have been an objection in

00:53relation to landscape and visual impacts.