Recreation complex is looking for new users to attract ‘visitors’ back to the largest units

Two former restaurants in the city’s largest leisure complex have been put on the market. Lockmeadow in Barker Road, Maidstone, which has a cinema, trampoline park and bowling alley, has two large spaces that it is desperately trying to fill. The Lockmeadow Recreation Complex is on the market. Photo: Gary Browne These are the old … Read more

‘We pay our municipal tax, but we live in a slum’

Neighbors who have been plagued by skip bins for almost two months say their road has turned into a ‘slum’ due to the amount of rubbish not collected. Some homeowners in Longbridge, Willesborough Lees, in Ashford, have even taken to spraying the festering rubbish with disinfectant every day. David Cossey, from Willesborough Lees, Ashford, now … Read more

‘Change needed’ now that another store is closing

Another company has closed a city shopping center and “change is needed to reverse the pattern of closures,” says a senior council member. Iris Hair and Beauty salon has closed after the landlords of the Royal Star Arcade in Maidstone called in bailiffs to claw back the lease. Another business has closed in the Royal … Read more