Maidstone Lacks Effective and Strong Vision.

The vision document Maidstone 20/20 Our Vision gives us:
Improving in all that we do; Improving customer care; Maintaining a clean and tidy borough
Community Safety; Improving parks, open spaces and play areas; and Improving transport links and, in particular, delivering the All Saints Link Road.

I suggest that these are weak words. These six statements are obvious and therefore hardly worthy of presence in a vision statement with any real prospect of delivering the Maidstone that we deserve.

What we need is a clearly articulated vision statement that does exactly what is says upon the bottle, a statement of words that we can all see in our minds eye.

If we look at other towns around the country, there are many with emphatically clear vision. The River Medway could and should be a jewel in the centre of town.
The Maidstone Wide Local Plan (2000) is not robust, according to Cllr English, member for regeneration (LibDem). Why is this? He has suggested that under the LibDem/ labour coalition in power in 2000 they failed to stand up to what he called a rogue inspector.

MBC is responsible of Planning and Waste Collection/ Recycling.
LibDem and pseudo-independent-LibDem-voting plus Labour voting coalitions have controlled MBC since very many years bar one.

The Vision is poor at best; Improving in all that we do, what comfort!