Tonbridge & Malling Green Party
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- Successful December Monthly Clean-Up!
- Over 200 Members in just 1 year! That’s the power of real hope, real change.
- Celebrating Creativity: Tony Hart Centenary Exhibition Comes to Maidstone
- Reform UK Breaks Promise in Kent: Council Tax Rise Looms After Green Warnings Ignored
- Tonbridge and Malling Green Party Clean Up Brook Street in Judd Ward with Mark Hood, Paul Stepto and Steve Crisp
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Many residents woke up today to find they have no water as South East Water have yet again failed to ensure supplies. ![]()
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This company is expected to facilitate almost 20,000 additional homes in our borough once the Local Plan is imposed yet cannot cope with current demand.![]()
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Please check the companies website for more details ![]()
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aqualerter.southeastwater.co.uk![]()
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and sign up if you have medical requirements and should be added to their Priority Services Register to receive bottled water directly.![]()
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www.southeastwater.co.uk/help/priority-services/
AquAlerter Map by South East Water
aqualerter.southeastwater.co.uk
Reform's first budget is a study in short-termism and broken promises.Reform UK Budget raids reserves and sells the family silver to break election pledge on Council Tax.![]()
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Reform have sacrificed long-term stability in order to prevent a maximum increase in Council Tax which will inevitably cost Kent residents in terms of lost funding for years to come. The council’s own report highlights the use of £16m of reserves and £9m of capital receipts to balance this 2026/27 budget.![]()
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KCC Green Group Leader Cllr Mark Hood said, “Reform UK were elected on a lie. An unachievable promise to cut council tax. Instead the administration has increased council tax by 4% just 1% below the maximum allowable. More importantly the administration has shot itself in the foot by reducing the amount it will be able to raise in successive years meaning a potential £30m shortfall over the course of the Medium Term Financial Plan”.![]()
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The budget has been ‘balanced’ by raiding reserves and relying on the unsustainable diversions of capital receipts from property assets they have disposed of in order to fund expenditure or bolster the General Reserve.![]()
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Reform have abandoned any commitment to paying off the current years overspend of £38m by incorporating the outstanding sum in the new years Adult Social Care budget. That budget will deprive the nursing and residential care home companies used by KCC of any inflation linked uplift which risks their viability after a challenging period where they have had to deal with the increase in the Living Wage and Employers National Insurance costs. There are huge savings expected in the Adult Social Care Budget through a combination of cuts and reorganisation, if those are not achieved as they haven’t over the past two years there are serous doubt that the councils financial situation will be resilient enough to repay the overspend.![]()
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The budget fails to attribute any efficiencies to the DOLGE debacle and we repeat our calls for it to scrapped and its funding transferred to places it will actually make a difference
Don't forget to re-register for a postal vote.If you've received a letter asking you to refresh your postal vote then you'll need to take action before the deadline of 31st January 2026. 📆 ![]()
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If your application is not updated by this time, your postal vote will be cancelled.![]()
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Should you receive a form, please complete it online, if possible. Otherwise, return the form in the envelope provided as soon as you can. ![]()
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If you have a postal vote but have not received a letter, then you don't need to do anything. ![]()
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Thank you 🗳️
