West Wood was meant to be sold off as a holiday village: waterworld, lodges, roads, sewage works, the lot. Rank won the planning fight and survived the High Court. Then locals dug in, the clock ran out, and Kent kept the trees. Funny how forests sometimes have the last word. tinyurl.com/y4bpnd9t
A private leisure village in a public Kent forest won the planning argument, survived the High Court and still never got built. The reason West Wood survived wasn’t simple. It was planning, law, wa…
