Rising costs of construction have scuppered plans for a lakeside pub and restaurant where scores of new homes are being built. Shepherd Neame had been in talks with Ashford Borough Council (ABC) about launching a site at Conningbrook Lakes Country Park off Willesborough Road. But the Faversham brewery says a “significant increase” in construction means the development can no longer go ahead. It comes after plans for the second phase of the Conningbrook Lakes housing development were approved by ABC. Three-hundred homes have already been built in the area, and now a further 170 have been green-…
