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KCC Urgent Road Closure – Dean Street, Tovil – 17th October 2025 (Maidstone)

 

It will be necessary to close Dean Street, Tovil from 17th October 2025 for up to 2 days.

 

The road will be closed from property number 147 to the junction with lower road.

 

The alternative route is via Northbound: B2010 Dean Street, B2163 Heath Road, A229 Linton Road, A229 Loose Road, A229 Sheals Crescent, A229 Hayle Road, A229 College Road, B2010 College Road, B2010 Tovil Road, B2010 Tovil Hill, B2010 Farleigh Hill, B2010 Dean Street.

 

Southbound: B2010 Dean Street, B2010 Farleigh Hill, B2010 Tovil Hill, B2010 Tovil Road, B2010 College Road, A229 College Road, A229 Mill Street, A229 Palace Avenue, A229 Lower Stone Street, A229 Upper Stone Street, A229 Loose Road, A229 Linton Road, B2163 Heath Road, Dean street.

 

It is planned that the road will be closed between 19:30 hrs and 23:30 hrs each day.

 

This is to enable carriageway patching to be carried out by Kent County Council.Public Notice - Dean Street

KCC have been allocated ring-fenced funding from the Office of Zero Emissions Vehicles for the delivery of on-street public chargers across Kent. We are currently in the final stages of procuring a private ChargePoint operator to work with us to deliver the Local Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (LEVI) network of up to 10,000 on-street public EV chargers. We are planning an equitable roll-out across the county aimed at streets where there are houses without off-street parking, but we plan to install in stretches of road that don’t impact frontages to limit disruption as much as we can. One example in Tovil we have identified is Wharf Road, just down from the junction with Church Road. The delivery phase of the project will be 10 years, therefore it is difficult to estimate when any installs may begin in Tovil.

As part of the process, we are inviting residents, Parish Councils, and businesses to suggest suitable on-street locations for EV chargers. If you wish to participate, please visit letstalk.kent.gov.uk/on-street-ev the interactive map should let you drop multiple pins for any areas you feel would be ideal locations.

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