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Nuisance Vehicles

The Community Safety Unit (CSU) has been working hard to address one of Wrotham’s longstanding issues—nuisance vehicles

Planning

Share your views on the Local Plan

It is crucial you have your say on where development takes place. This is our best time to do so.

Cost of Living

Beware of winter fuel payment scams

Between April and September 2025, Action Fraud has received 2,790 crime reports relating to Winter Fuel Payment scams, with victims reporting losses totalling over £27,000.

Society

Asian Hornet monitoring traps for farmers and landowners

Kent Downs National Landscape is working in conjunction with Asian Hornet Alert to help distribute monitoring traps for this invasive non-native species across Kent.

Society

Warning to #ProtectYourPension from fraud

Savers and those reaching retirement age are being warned to protect their pensions and look out for criminals trying to catch people out of their life savings, with Action Fraud revealing a total annual loss of £17,567,249. This equates to roughly £48,129 lost to this type of fraud per day in 2024.

Society

VAWG – Be Behaviour Aware

Violence against women and girls (VAWG) has no place in our communities. Kent Police is committed to tackling this issue head-on and ensuring that everyone - especially women and girls - can feel safe where they live, work, and socialise.

Society

Don’t get hooked: new warning urges the public to continue reporting phishy emails and texts with 41 million already reported

As of April 2025, the total number of phishing scams reported to the Suspicious Email Reporting Service (SERS) reached over 41 million since its launch in April 2020. This has resulted in 217,000 scams being removed from across 393,395 websites pages by the National Cyber Security Centre.