"Dave Arquati" wrote in message
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Isn't it Green Belt?

Errr... if it was, it isn't any more (so I'm guessing it wasn't!).
Planning permission was granted last year for a 3,000 home + ~800,000m²
commerical development called (at the moment) Kent Thameside. Part of
the Prescott grand vision for the Thames Gateway I think.

http://www.kt-s.co.uk

Thankfully a generally-segregated bus system is planned for the area,
with a network of buses running initially between Dartford, Bluewater,
Greenhithe, Northfleet and Gravesend, with other legs added gradually
afterwards (they expect to serve the international station by the time
it opens). They mention a both local and express routes between
Ebbsfleet and Gravesend.

Some of the area has been taken out of the Green Belt. One of the main
development sites, Eastern Quarry, is an enormous chalk pit that stretches
from Bluewater to Northfleet (the CTRL runs through this). Construction of
the segregated bus network, which will run between Dartford and Gravesend,
via Bluewater and Ebbsfleet, has started.
Peter