Swale Borough Council has become the latest authority to call for the Household Support Fund to be extended beyond March. The scheme, introduced to help the most vulnerable during the cost of living ...

Behind closed doors in Kent, a quiet crisis is taking hold - one that often goes unseen by neighbours, friends, and even family. Inside some homes, bedrooms are no longer places to sleep, baths are ...

Thousands of homes near Bobbing, Sittingbourne, are recommended for approval but face pushback. Swale Borough Council is set to decide on planned homes in Bobbing, near Sittingbourne, on Thursday. The ...

Campaigners fear a historic Kent town will be “obliterated” by housing after a council signalled the area will bear the brunt of thousands of new homes in the borough. Members in Swale have ...

Swale Borough Council (SBC) has approved plans to increase council tax by 2.96% as part of its budget. Councillors agreed the measures as part of its 2025/26 budget at a meeting on Wednesday. It means ...

Stormwater management. The subject is rarely a hot topic for the local gossip crowd, but it is a fundamental smart growth practice that has quietly put Lititz on the map of how development should be ...

A council has voted to look into restricting HMOs across part of north Kent, saying “it only takes one” to disrupt a whole community. A motion was heard at Swale council calling to implement an ...

The scheme, introduced to help the most vulnerable during the cost of living crisis, is due to end on 31 March. In January Medway Council wrote to the Chancellor Jeremy Hunt, calling for it to be ...