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Hundreds of residents in North Kent turned out last night to protest at plans which they say could see hundreds of houses built on green field and green belt land in Gravesham.

The local council is consulting on a planning blueprint for the area for the next 20 years and it says it cannot rule out the possibility that green belt land will be built on.

Three giant cooling towers, which have dominated the East Kent skyline since the 1950s, are going to be demolished unless local campaigners can halt a planning decision being looked at by the local council.

The towers were built at Richborough near Sandwich to burn fuel from the Kent coalfields but were decommissioned in the late 90s. Now the owners of the site want pull them down, to build a green energy park.

Damning external and internal reports, the loss of the person in charge, shameful observations made by Judges over the death of a child and another case in which children were exposed to a paedophile.

It has been a rough year and a half for Kent County Council's social services department.

Since last January KCC has made child protection its top priority and a recovery plan is now bearing fruit.

We hear from the department's new boss Andrew Ireland, the Corporate Director for Families and Social Care.