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Jul 18, 20203 min read
THE EMERGING LOCAL PLAN
Over the next 30 months the Local Plan review will set the vision and framework for development needs for the whole of Swale Borough area...
Jul 18, 20203 min read
FAVERSHAM CREEKSIDE BUILDINGS
By Brian Pain Over the past twenty years the buildings along the Creek have changed. What was once a thriving port, full of industrial...
Jul 18, 202014 min read
CLEVE HILL: THE GAME WAS RIGGED FROM THE START
By Richard Belfield As soon as David Rose, the inspector for the Cleve Hill enquiry, was appointed it was an easy bet to see what the...
Jul 18, 20205 min read
CHARLES WILLIAMS - A PROFILE
By Richard Belfield Charles Williams is a local artist with an international reputation, exhibiting his work in the USA, UK and elsewhere...
Jul 18, 202022 min read
ESSAY COMPETITION - THE WINNER & RUNNERS UP!
In our last issue we invited our readers to submit an essay or no more than 2000 words under the title: Life after Coronavirus. We...
Jul 18, 20203 min read
CREEK NEWS: JETTIES, POLLUTION AND PIRATES
TOWN JETTY Built in 1987 the Town Council owned jetty at the Front Brents was in real need of major repair and refurbishment having had...
Jul 18, 20203 min read
FOCUS ON PHOTOGRAPHY - ROBERT GRESHOFF
Robert Greshoff was born in Cape Town, South Africa. He completed a Fine Art degree in photography in 1985 and helped photographers...
Jul 18, 20203 min read
On The Square - Issue 10
WETHERSPOONS Before they go into Wetherspoons on Preston Street, Faversham Eye readers should recall the dreadful behaviour of Tim...
Jul 18, 20201 min read
CALM DOWN
After a five year campaign by Faversham own 20’s Plenty Community Group, Kent County Council has finally approved a 20mph speed limit in...
May 8, 20201 min read
REQUEST FOR DONATIONS OR SUBSCRIPTIONS
The Faversham Eye is, and will remain, freely available to all in the town. It is an independent community newspaper, funded by Brian...
Apr 25, 20202 min read
Welcome to Issue Nine:
Because it takes more than the biggest global crisis in a century to stop the Faversham Eye. In just a few brief months, Coronavirus has...
Apr 25, 20204 min read
TREE PLANTING
By Frances Beaumont Before we all went into lockdown many groups got out their gardening tools and started tree planting, rewilding and...
Apr 25, 20203 min read
POST OFFICE UPDATE
By Richard Belfield The Faversham Post Office shut yet again this month “until further notice.”. According to the notice in the window...
Apr 25, 20203 min read
FOCUS ON PHOTOGRAPHY - PETER SMITH
Peter started his career in the late 1970’s after training at Canterbury and Folkestone Art Colleges. He worked straightaway with...
Apr 24, 20206 min read
Jacqueline HITCHCOCK
By Nathalie Banaigs Each town has its individual characters, those who leave their mark in people’s memories. Faversham has a few and...
Apr 24, 20208 min read
CLEVE HILL UPDATE - 3
By Richard Belfield The behaviour of the planning inspectors in the Cleve Hill solar farm inquiry gets more bizarre by the day. There has...
Apr 24, 20204 min read
FAVERSHAM'S SHODDY HOUSES - WHY ARE THEY BEING BUILT SO BADLY?
As we are all painfully aware, Faversham is suffering a flood of new housing developments which threaten the character and identity of...
Apr 24, 202024 min read
COVID 19 - THE TIMELINE OF A PANDEMIC
By Richard Fleury The whole world will remember 2020 as the year of coronavirus. In Faversham, as elsewhere, the outbreak has caused the...
Apr 24, 20201 min read
SWALE NEWS
It is good to see the front page of Inside Swale (our borough council’s quarterly newsletter) is devoted to a picture of Standard Quay...
Apr 24, 20201 min read
EMPTYSTREETS - A TOWN IN LOCKDOWN
Words and images by: Nathalie Banaigs Walking through the streets of Faversham between 29 March and the 9 April 2020, I saw a town...
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