A lack of progress in improving a town’s road network has seen Kent County Council (KCC) roundly condemned. Of a list of projects intended to improve 10 key junctions around Maidstone, after four years only one – at Armstrong Road – has been completed and only one – the A20 Coldharbour roundabout – was moving ahead, a meeting of the Joint Transportation Board heard. Other projects in the Maidstone Integrated Transport Package, drawn up to improve the roads to cope with housing growth, had either stalled or had been dropped altogether. The plan had been conceived in 2016 and approved in 2020 bu…
