A town’s rivers are not to get any additional help from their council. Backbench councillors had asked the Conservative administration at Maidstone council to consider setting up a “river task force” to coordinate activities in a bid to improve water quality and biodiversity along the River Len and River Medway as they flow through the town. The proposal from the Housing Health and Environment Committee was that the task force would include local landowners, water companies, the Environment Agency, Kent Wildlife Trust, South East Rivers Trust and other key organisations under the chairmanship …
