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A youth club will be rolled out inside shipping containers to help combat “hundreds of young people” engaging in “deviant behaviour”. Canterbury city councillors greenlit proposals for the two-storey building next to the city wall against officers’ recommendations. Planning chiefs argued the project “would detract from the setting of the city wall,” a scheduled ancient monument situated “within Canterbury’s conservation area”. But councillors at a committee meeting gave the new venue the nod on July 23, where details of troubled youths in the area were laid bare. Cllr Harry McKenzie (Lab), the…

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