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Possibly the most exploitative “home” in Medway

It’s no secret that planning control in Medway is utterly ineffective. Even when a planning application is rejected, landowners will often build anyway, and there appears to be very little to stop them. I covered an example of this last month when someone in Rainham brazenly built a tiny ‘flat’ in their back garden and rented it out despite being explicitly forbidden by the council from doing so.

Well, good news everybody!

There’s something in Strood that might be worse.