Bredgar Parish Council supporting Five Parishes Group

We Need Your Help

Please join one of the group's walks and get some sponsors - see below!!

The Highsted Park planning inquiry isn’t over yet. It will resume on 2nd October for 12 more days of hearings before closing at the end of the month. The Five Parishes Group has already raised major concerns about the scheme’s viability — evidence shows the developers may be short by £150 million, leaving insufficient money to build the vital roads and motorway junction required before any houses can be sold, or to fulfil delivery of service improvements or other mitigations that are being promised now. For more details see our leaflet or this Sittingbourne.me - blog.

Whatever the final outcome Five Parishes Group presence at the Inquiry is making sure that local community concerns about the Highsted Park planning applications are raised - we are making a real difference by being there!

Because the Inquiry has been extended, our legal and expert costs are rising. Thanks to your support, £60,000 has already been raised — but £15,000 more is urgently needed to finish the fight.

Please support "Walk the Five Parishes"

A fundraising event that will take place on Sunday, 28th September. The event will include long, medium and short sponsored community walks, through our beautiful local countryside — which will be irreparably blighted by the proposed Highsted Park development.

Please come and enjoy the walks with us! Your participation will help us raise much needed funds to keep fighting against Highsted Park at the Planning Inquiry. Walking with us also gives you a chance to appreciate, enjoy and raise awareness of the incredible landscapes, habitats and heritage at threat.

For more details see the Five Parishes Group Facebook Page and book in for a walk on Eventbright here.

Brian Clarke, chairman of our Parish Council had hoped to fund raise at least £500 by walking the full 15 miles with modest sponsorship by as many people as possible. He supports planning by the democratic Local Plan ✔ but not the speculative application Highsted Park ✘.

On Friday the 29th August he did the full "Walk the Five Parishes" 15+ miles to check out the route. Leaving from Bredgar at 10:00am after the rain, stopping for lunch at The Fruiterers and arriving back home at 5:30pm. Last week, he then did some significant manual labour work at home and strained a leg! Therefore he has had to decide not to do the walk again on Sunday, 28th September. Instead he will be making a donation directly to FPG matching his fund raising target of £500. Anyone who has already sponsored him will have the option of a refund.

To make a donation directly to Five Parishes Group:

See www.fiveparishes.org.uk/donate.

If you would like to be a sponsored walker, help or for more information please contact us.

Contact by email: Bredgar Parish Council or [email protected].

See the Five Parishes website: www.fiveparishes.org.uk

Facebook Group: www.facebook.com/FiveParishesOppositionGroup