Where is the real heart of Kent?
As County Hall loses much of its power, where will Kent’s real centre be?
Ed Jennings
Local news bore. Editor Kent Current and Local Authority.
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International rail competition is coming, but not to Kent
Plus Dartford drivers paying to go nowhere, Whitstable reaches peak oyster and an anti-migrant protest at a closed Pizza Hut
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Kent’s drought and hosepipe bans expose a messy water map
Five drinking water suppliers, disconnected supply areas and decades of mergers leave neighbouring Kent households subject to different hosepipe rules
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Three versions of the right fight for the White Cliffs
Plus a £50,000 toilet saga, Greens and Reform against solar farms, a delayed Leas Lift and the battle over a Walmer sauna.
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Kent’s fire cuts defeated as politicians fight for credit
Station closures defeated, but the underlying problems remain, plus Kent's four new councils begin to take shape
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The Northfleet plan that promised almost everything
Plus Margate’s art boom, Dover’s unwanted political spotlight, a critical incident at East Kent hospitals and Costco coming to Aylesford
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DOLGE is dead. Long live DOLGE.
KCC replaces its flagship efficiency department with a council-wide way of working with no savings target, no new powers and closed meetings at the centre
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KCC’s finance and payroll overhaul heads for £38m
Another £7.5m is needed, with payroll still in testing and the system’s future undecided
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Kent’s grammar school system has a £7.2m maths problem
Plus a council stretching from Folkestone to Sheppey, six-hour border queues, Southern Water bosses facing trial and a far-right damp squib in Dover
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KCC didn't approve a quarry, but it did move one step closer
An argument over wording is obscuring what the council's close decision actually changes
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The anthem, the loophole and the American subtitles
Plus missing KCC documents reappear, another Tunbridge Wells water failure, a £7m sewage fine and a fight over ancient woodland near Maidstone
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Four new councils and a lot of unanswered questions
Four authorities, fourteen councils to unwind, and less than two years to build a new system of local government