Whitfield Action Group

	Our Mission
	Who We Are
	Contact Us
	Downloads

Traffic

With new houses expect more traffic and add another 13,000 cars to our already congested roads.

Whitfield Action Group is a Community Group made up of local residents who oppose large-scale housing development within Whitfield Parish and the District, especially on Greenfield sites. Our aim is to preserve Whitfield’s village community and to ensure realistic housing numbers are agreed for the whole District that will not have an adverse effect on Dover ’s long-term regeneration prospects and that will be accompanied by adequate Infrastructure and Community Services.

Membership is open to any person, over the age of 14 years residing in the Parish of Whitfield and to people from outside of the Parish with a special interest or specialist expertise.

Scenes like this may soon appear around Whitfield

Whitfield Action Group is made up of a Core Group Committee of active members who meet regularly and a wider group of members and supporters who are regularly updated on the campaign. The Group also has the support of many of the District’s Town and Parish Councils.

Elected Chairman of Whitfield Action Group is local businessman Roger Knight, who has lived in Whitfield for over 40 years. Roger is the Editor of Whitfield News and on the Board of the Dover Chamber of Commerce. He also holds positions in the Whitfield Community; LEA Governor for Whitfield & Aspen School and Community Governor for Archers Court Maths & Computing College . Roger believes: Whitfield is a village which over the years has developed into a strong community. It is set amongst the beautiful Kent countryside; surrounded by farmlands and steeped in history and natural beauty… he will work to keep it that way. He acknowledges the need for new homes but expects a balanced, realistic and sympathetic approach to numbers and location.

Core Group Member Jeff Goodsell is a Whitfield Parish Councillor, serving on the Housing and Planning Committee and the Recreation Committee, and is the nominated Parish Council Representative on Whitfield Action Group, KCC’s Neighbourhood Forum and the Kent Association of Parish Councils. Jeff moved to Whitfield in 1993 and is keen to protect the Village Community and Whitfield’s semi-rural aspect.

Core group Member Helen Ayers has lived in Whitfield with Husband Graham for eighteen and a half years; three and a half years in Greenfields and the last fifteen years in Nursery Lane . They have two sons who went to Whitfield School and now both attend the local Grammar School. Both Helen and Graham work locally and enjoy the quiet way of life in Whitfield and its beautiful rural location and will fight to keep it that way.

Whitfield Action Group work closely with Whitfield Parish Council and many other bodies and organisations in the District. Whitfield Action Group campaigns at all levels of Local, County, Regional and National government and were invited participants at the Regional Assembly’s Examination in Public of the South East Plan that discussed the overall housing allocation to East Kent .

Whitfield Action Group - fighting for the community