This year’s Remembrance Day service was held on Sunday November 13th at St Peter & St Paul Church in The Street. Led by the Rev Canon Dr Steve Lillicrap, Rector of Kingsdown Creekside and High Downs, the community gathered to pay tribute to the men and women who sacrificed their lives in defence of our nation in the two World Wars.
Members of the congregation read out the names of the fallen from Lynsted, Teynham and Norton.
Parish Council chairman, Julien Speed, laid a wreath on behalf of the parish - as did Lloyd Bowen for the Mayor of Swale and representatives from Teynham and Norton Parish Councils. The wreaths can be viewed
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They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old; age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning, we will remember them
If you've always wanted to know the answer to that question, there's a fascinating event on Wednesday 16 November hosted by the Lynsted with Kingsdown Society. Sue Lamberton will give a practical talk on the clothing worn by men and women in medieval times. All welcome, admission is just £3 on the door for non-members. Light refreshments are included.
The event starts at 8pm at Lynsted Church in The Street, Lynsted. See the poster HERE
A new waste bin has been installed in the Parish, following a request by a resident who mentioned problems with dog mess in Tickham Lane. The new bin is situated where the road turns at a right angle from Nouds Lane towards Norton Lane. It’s at the entrance to the orchard leading to The Plough public house in Lewson Street.
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Being the entrance to a footpath, it will benefit dog walkers using the pathway.
The new bin can be viewed
HERE Swale Council has put its Local Plan for the Borough on hold. The Policy & Resources Committee have agreed a recommendation by officers to "postpone Regulation 19 consultation until the Levelling Up and Regeneration Bill gains Royal Assent or there is greater certainty regarding national policy direction in relation to the local plan system”.
The draft Local Plan, which attracted overwhelming opposition from residents, would have meant the construction of up to 1,400 extra new houses on greenfield sites in Teynham and Lynsted - an area lacking in facilities and infrastructure, as well as suffering from high levels of traffic congestion and poor air quality.
It is expected to be delayed for 12-18 months. The report by Council planning officers highlighted that any consultation taking place during the next 12 months or so is likely to need to be re-done to take into account revisions to national policy.
Cllr Julien Speed, chairman of Lynsted with Kingsdown Parish Council, welcomed the move:
“I called for the Swale Local Plan process to be halted as long ago as October last year in view of expected changes to Government planning policy. Yesterday, new Prime Minister Rishi Sunak confirmed his commitment to a strategy of brownfield-first.
“None of the five options in their most recent consultation would have delivered the right development for the Borough. It would have meant submitting an unsound plan to the Government's inspector, with little chance of it being approved.
“We now face ongoing uncertainty around Swale Council’s emerging thinking on development plots and planning strategy.
“During this hiatus, we need transparency on their evidence base and assessment criteria - with a programme of engagement to bring the community with them as opposed to presenting us with a fait accompli.
“In the meantime, the Council needs to resist speculative planning applications across the Borough. All out-of-scale developments should be refused until the picture becomes clearer”.
Trees for Farms will be in the Parish of Lynsted with Kingsdown on 19th and 20th November, planting around 370m of native species hedgerow. Trees for Farms is a local initiative based in Swale, which aims to enable the local community to work with farms to plant new hedges as a way of creating a species-rich habitat for many kinds of wildlife and thus increasing local biodiversity.
Trees for Farms have created 1000m of new hedgerow in the local area since 2020 - with another 500m planned this season. This equates to a total of 7000 trees!
If you’d like to get involved, click HERE for their contact details. You don’t need specialist knowledge and you don’t even have to be able to dig.
