A housing project in Kent that could provide 3,500 homes to support Angela Rayner’s housebuilding drive has been paused amid claims that dangerous lead pollution from a neighbouring refinery could put future residents at risk.
The project, which comes as the government plans to fast-track new developments and build 1.5 million homes, would see thousands of homes built next to one of Europe’s leading lead refineries on brownfield land in Gravesham.
