Protecting our green spaces from inappropriate housing developments and safeguarding our precious environment.

‘House building’ always features very heavily in my post bag and it’s not difficult to understand why; the building of new homes impacts upon so many aspects of our everyday life, changing our environment and revising familiar localities permanently.

Since I became the MP for Maidstone and The Weald in 2010, I have been visibly and publicly opposed to the number of houses which central Government have imposed on our part of Kent.

Last week in my piece for the online edition of Downs Mail I heralded a meeting scheduled for last Thursday (16th July), between Maidstone Borough Council (MBC) and officials from the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, where MBC were seeking to mitigate the heavy housing burden p

Aside from the all-encompassing omnipresence of Brexit and Covid-19 these last few months, the single biggest issue raised with me by the people of Maidstone and The Weald concerns the building of new houses across our gorgeous, green garden of England.  The controversially high number finally

One of the big issues concerning residents of Maidstone and The Weald over the last few years has been the spectre of substantial new housing developments underscored by a lack of commitment to necessary supporting infrastructure.

Maidstone’s road network is unique. It is where four of Kent’s arterial routes meet and it encompasses four junctions of the M20. The volume of traffic this creates means there is little or no resilience in the network.

For at least the last five years, the most persistent  issue raised with me by the people of Maidstone & the Weald has been concern about excessive housing development, particularly when it isn’t accompanied by the required infrastructure.   It was at the forefront of my discussio

Local MPs Tracey Crouch and Helen Grant have formally requested the Secretary of State call in the Gladman application to develop land between Aylesford and Allington. Further to initial correspondence with MHCLG during the election, when TMBC approved the application to build 840 houses on land in

A Kent MP has welcomed the decision to protect a crucial rural bus service for school pupils. Helen Grant, Member of Parliament for Maidstone and The Weald, was very concerned to learn that the service, which is mostly used by students who live in Marden to get to schools across Maidstone, was unde

Maidstone’s MP has met with senior rail executives in Parliament to exert pressure over the continued failure to introduce the new City Thameslink Service from Maidstone East. In a meeting with Govia Thameslink Railway (GTR) Chief Executive Patrick Verwer and his team, Helen Grant, made clear the l