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Nine new homes are proposed to be built around a unique Finnish sauna that has survived from the 1948 Olympic Games. The timber-built sauna, which rests in the grounds of Cobdown House in Ditton, has only just been declared a Grade II-listed building following a campaign by the British Sauna Society, which was supported by Chatham and Aylesford MP Tracey Crouch and Finnish ambassador Jukka Siukosaari. The listing was made by Historic England in January this year. The building was a gift to the “Austerity Games” by a Finnish company, Puutalo Oy, which specialised in prefabricated buildings, to …

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