photo David Spellman

ABOUT KENT

Kent is positioned on the main historic route between Europe and Great Britain. It is endowed with many historic towns and villages, rich farmland and a coastline on about two-thirds of its borders,  which extend as far as London. This endowment has brought great wealth, as well as planning and management responsibilities, to its inhabitants. 
There are throughout Kent over one hundred local amenity societies, residents' associations, Parish Councils and action groups, both rural and urban. They seek to maintain and improve the quality of their towns and villages, to conserve their character, and to encourage high standards for new development. 
Successive governments have put increasing emphasis on the need for public consultation. There has been a move to handling issues on a regional basis. The Department for Transport, Local Government and the Regions  now have regional offices. The Civic Trust has also decided to form regional committees, with members recruited from county associations such as KFAS. It becomes even more important to have an amenity organisation which looks at the county as a whole. This is our objective in collaboration with other county-wide organisations.