Malling

West Malling Farmers Market. Attribution: Philralph

West Malling is an historic mediaeval market town based in West Kent. Malling, West Malling and hinterland consists of the parishes of Addington; Birling; East Malling; Kings Hill; Larkfield; Leybourne; Mereworth; Offham; Ryarsh; and Trottiscliffe.

The area is unusual in that East Malling, Larkfield and Kings Hill are substantial communities with their own shops and facilities – however they provide the main commercial and industrial estates, leaving West Malling as a traditional market town offering retail shops, services and hospitality to the surrounding area. There are more than 500 businesses in the Malling area.

The parishes are within the Tonbridge and Malling Borough Council (offices at Kings Hill). The town is actually closer to Maidstone, County Town of Kent, than to Tonbridge; however both are substantial centres within easy reach of West Malling. [1]

Malling community action

Sustainability initiatives

This wiki page can also be viewed as a resource and information page for Sustainable Malling

♥ Climate action

  • Extinction Rebellion Tonbridge and Malling closed group on facebook

Setting Climate Committments for Tonbridge and Malling, Quantifying the implications of the United Nations Paris Agreement for Tonbridge and Malling, Feb 2020 carbonbudget.manchester.ac.uk

Opportunities to reduce energy use, stimulate economy, cut bills & reduce running costs of buildings, transport & industry thereby creating a happier, healthier, more prosperous place, & tackling climate change. pcancities.org.uk

♥ Biodiversity

East Malling, Ditton and Barming, blog of wildlife sightings

Communities online

eastmalling.net, independent project providing information and news for residents and visitors of East Malling

East Malling - supporting community projects in East Malling

Community safety

Tonbridge and Malling Community Safety Partnership - e-watch.co Tonbridge and Malling

Cycling activism

Tonbridge Bicycle Users Group, public group on facebook, added 16:24, 25 September 2020 (UTC)

West Malling on CycleStreets, plan a cycle journey

Environment quality

Report a problem on the road or pavement - kent.gov.uk

Food activism

Communigrow - Kent Community Supported Agriculture, aims include the current transformation to create a viable market garden run by the local community of Larkfield, Ditton and the Mallings.

Farmer's market:

West Malling Farmers Market, usually on the 4th Sunday of each month, but may be different in December

Spadework - farm shop

West Malling group on LetsGrow, Landshare

Malling Harvest Festival Supper, 2010 [2]

Health and wellbeing

Localism

West Malling Local Businesses, Shops and Services

Open spaces

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Macey's Meadow, renovated community orchard - East Malling Residents' Action Group

Social inclusion

Pilsdon at Malling, community, based in West Malling. Christian-based Community with its ideals and ethos taken from the Pilsdon Community in Dorset. The first Pilsdon Community was founded in 1958 as a refuge for those in crisis.

Spadework, independent training organisation, based in Offham, which undertakes tuition in a number of subject areas for adults with Learning Disabilities.

Sustainable transport activism

traveline south and east, plan a journey

Live departures and arrivals - West Malling, National Rail Enquiries

JourneyCheck West Malling to London Victoria

National Rail Enquiries: Station facilities for West Malling, Station Facilities for East Malling

Resources

Citizens data initiative

Thriving Places Index, Tonbridge and Malling, 2020 summary scores, thrivingplacesindex.org added 17:53, 19 March 2020 (UTC)

Automatic search suggestions for TheyWorkForYou, FixMyStreet, and WriteToThem, when you enter your postcode on www.mysociety.org. eg mysociety.org

Census data 2011, use drill down menus for ward and Census Output Areas

West Malling Poverty and Index of Multiple Deprivation data from the Church Urban Fund

Maps

Poverty Map from the Church Urban Fund. (Enter location eg 'West Malling, Egland', then zoom out to see whole and neighbouring parishes)

Video

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More Video: Macey's Meadow Apple Fest 2015 on youtube

News and comment

2019

Malling parkrun Event #200 includes "an amazing number of donated food bank items for the Trussell Trust". Read the "moving item" in Malling park run Event #199 [3]

2018

We could build more than a million homes on brownfield land… so why aren’t we? Feb 28 [4] ...Kent news

2017

14% of Tonbridge and Malling is 'Built on', compared to 6% nationally, Nov 9 [5]

2016

Following West Malling Parish Council's decision to produce a Neighbourhood Plan, and the formal approval process, the Parish Council is asking residents 4 questions to help start the process. You can see a summary of answers from West Malling residents who attended the event on 3rd July, but also still give your answers via the PC website. See our talk page for a sample response, October.

East Malling Green Belt Questionaire

2014

Communigrow still needs more 'friends'. If you live locally and might be interested in this local food project please get in touch, December 8 [6]

Events

Regular events

4th Sunday of each month (usually, but December sometimes different) - West Malling Farmers Market

Campaigns

  • Protect West Malling, public group on facebook
  • Ryarsh Protection Group, an action group working alongside Ryarsh Parish Council. "Our priority currently (2018) is to object to the proposed ‘West Malling Sandpit’ which is a large sand quarry located in Ryarsh."

Local concerns

Overdevelopment

In common with many areas across the the South East, the constant threat of overdevelopment or inappropriate development, for example locking us into yet more car dependency, pollution and carbon emissions, loss of green space, lack of genuinely affordable housing and imbalances against community interests in the current top down planning system is a concern for many people locally.

14% of Tonbridge and Malling is 'Built on', compared to 6% nationally, Nov 9, 2017. [7] Because of recent and planned new housing the disparity is likely to be growing, with even more of a disparity for some parts of the Borough. It wold be interesting to know what the figure is for Malling and how this has increased over recent years.

See also


  • West Malling W
  • East Malling Matters on Facebook
  • Malling Action Partnership, community-based partnership leading to a community-developed vision for the future of West Malling as a market town.
  • Tonbridge and Malling Friends of the Earth on facebook
  • West Malling Neighbourhood Plan, 4 questions, westmallingpc.org
  • Big Lottery Fund grants in Tonbridge and Malling, since 2010, UK Civil Society Almanac | Constituencies, via @ncvo
  • West Malling Group Practice, includes maps of locations but unable to find related public transport information on the site Philralph (talk) 08:14, 8 January 2019 (PST)

References

  1. ↑ MAP Action plan 2009-2011, Introduction (link no longer available)
  2. ↑ link no longer available
  3. ↑ www.parkrun.org.uk/malling
  4. ↑ cprekent.org.uk
  5. ↑ bbc.co.uk
  6. ↑ Communigrow - Kent Community Supported Agriculture
  7. ↑ bbc.co.uk
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