Bridge Parish Council debated the Cantley proposal for house building on the A2 site at its meeting of 9 November. The proposal is for 40 houses to be built on the A2 site, including affordable homes, with the recreation ground handed over to the village in perpetuity and land allocated for a village hall and associated car park. With 8 councillors in attendance the vote was 6-2 in favour of the proposal. The councillors who voted against argued that it was premature to support it. The head teacher of Bridge and Patrixbourne Primary School has written to the council opposing access to the site via the private road that serves the school and nursing home. The Parish Council is drafting a leaflet that will be circulated to the village.
with the proposed umpteen thousand houses to be erected between Canterbury and Bridge, I fail to see the crying need for ANY houses to be built in Bridge. with the possible exception of Corralls yard , Rogers garage and demolish the Mill Centre( hall should be by the recreation ground). in a few years time the Bypass will be the only buffer. Bridge will be a suburb.