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Date submitted

12 Sep 2025

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Interested Party

It was unfortunate that the Inland Border Facility led to a substantial diversion of the public footpath through the site, with a much longer and more tortuous route around the facility. However, that footpath has now been extinguished. It is vitally important that the new planning permission should retain and protect the new, longer footpath around the site, to continue to link Mersham with Sevington Church. As part of the planning permission the Government should honour its pledge to hand the land at Highfield East over to Ashford Borough Council in order to create a biodiversity resource, nature reserve and public open space in perpetuity.