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The Future of the Thanet Green Belt: Local Politics Meets Housing Pressure
@39cjt59llr · 10 September 2026
I have lived in East Kent most of my life, and I remember when the fields between Margate and Ramsgate were just that — fields. You could stand on a rise near Broadstairs and see nothing but patchwork farmland stretching toward the sea. That view is under threat now, and it has become a flashpoint in local politics. The argument over the thanet green belt is not really about land. It is about what kind of place this corner of England wants to be. Thanet has always been a bi
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