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Save Maidstone Barracks

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P Nicholls
9 years ago

Close the Council and County Council Offices to make more sense as they are both good brown field sites too expensive to maintain and full of hot air and idiots.

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Nick howard
9 years ago

Kcc and Mbc all they want is money just keep building houses but don't worry about the infer structure ,maidstone is at overload already

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Anonymous
9 years ago

As a former sapper of 36 Engineer Regiment it will be a travesty to close invicta barracks.

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Lisa Dicker
9 years ago

The people of Maidstone need their concerns heard, we are becoming overcrowded at an alarming rate and the traffic is a nightmare even after all the money spent on the one way system- over 300 flats are being built on the opposite side of the road to the barraks- enough is enough!

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Julie Brown-Jones
9 years ago

These people have always supported and served this Country. Shame on Westminster!

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Nagendra Gurung
9 years ago

Save the QGE barracks plz.

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Evelyn warriner
9 years ago

Maidstone needs the barracks to stay as it has historical ties with the town. The building of new homes on this site would be a disaster for the town, as Maidstone is already overcrowded and pollution is at a high and will only get worse if new houses are built. Out of town houses are needed more than in town

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Andrew Michalski
9 years ago

We mustn't let this base close. It is purely for financial reasons, which is all this govnmt cares about. With an extra 1300 homes here, it will make an already crowded Maidstone/Medway area even worse. The is barely room to get around now let alone with the council intent on building more and more houses just to gain extra council tax revenue.

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Anonymous
9 years ago

The fact that the decision for the closure of this barrack is not based on the army's needs but financial gains from housing developers angers me.

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Dave Usborne
9 years ago

The Invicta Barracks is an integral part of the community of Maidstone and adds to the rich tapestry of life in the town. To close it down not only destroys part of Maidstone and it's great history but continues the gradual disassociation of the county of Kent from its proud military history.

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James haigh
9 years ago

Keep our barracks.

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mrs m roberts
9 years ago

Inappropriate redevelopment Maidstone is dying under the quantity of traffic now and we have a proud military association over many generations traditions and quality of life surely count for something . Perhaps these faceless individuals just don't care about the people of Maidstone.

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Simon Bass
9 years ago

This sounds like a ridiculous decision which takes no account of what the Army needs so much as what the budget deficit 'requires'.

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Dawn Reynolds
9 years ago

Such a shame bring Maidstone down into the pits even more a rubbish filthy empty town no schools and more houses. Think about our history and the family's

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BP Touhey MBE RE
9 years ago

Have we learnt nothing from closing the Dock Yard at Chatham, do we want another Medway town to go down the Medway!!

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Anonymous
9 years ago

Kent is turning into an overflow for the dregs of londons social housing list.

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Tina Cope
9 years ago

I used to work there years ago as a civilian contractor imployee. The Baracks is important not just for the military community, but the local one as well.

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James S Maclarty
9 years ago

I served at the barracks 1965 -1974, It was a pleasure to serve in such a surrounding for an Army barracks. Invicta Park is an icon of Maidstone and to disolve it is to take away another part of the town! , take too much away and you have ....nothing!!!

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Barry Tagg
9 years ago

The barracks have been part of the town for years & should remain.

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Will Buckle
9 years ago

I experienced members of the Nepalese community in my working years and we have a Nepalese family living close by. I fully support Helen Grant's stand on this