Canterbury District Green Party believes the new Draft Plan issued by Canterbury City Council is a license for housing developers to build excessive amounts of large houses, just to fund new road building projects.

Thousands of new luxury homes built in precious green spaces will be of no help to locals trying to get on the housing ladder and will result in more concrete, more traffic congestion, more air pollution, more carbon emissions, and of course, more sewage pollution. Sewage pollution is already a public health threat to families in the area and threatens local businesses in Whitstable and Herne Bay.

We call on Canterbury City Council to HALT all new housing development until sewage pollution stops or significant improvements are put in place by Southern Water.

Local people, local families and local businesses, before profit.