A public inquiry into whether an area of disused farmland can be declared a village green begins next week. Campaigners from the Medway Ecological Riverine Link (MERLin) have spent more than three years gathering evidence from local residents on how they have used the 15 hectares at Bunyards Farm near Allington unhindered as public open space. But now, their claim is being contested by the land’s owners, the Andrew Cheale Will Trust, and by the developer BDW Trading Ltd, which has an option on the site to build 435 new homes. The two sides will come together in what has been labelled as a “Dav…