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The long distance path on a bridleway heads past a new housing estate (the De Montfort Park Development), towards a bridleway bridge over the A28 Ashford Road, from Mock Lane.

The long distance path heads straight on to Bucksford Lane. Another footpath should head left (at 90 degrees, towards Swaffer Way), but a more popular route is to angle towards Great Fishers leading to Swaffer Way. The stile on the right is not used and the sign on it shows the adaptations to the footpath due to the new housing estate of De Montfort Park near Singleton.

Redrow is building more houses on the west of Singleton. The Paddocks is the sixth phase of a De Montfort Park development on Tithe Barn Lane. See http://www.redrow.co.uk/assets/uploaded/documents/100_The%20Paddocks%20brochure.pdf for more details.

Seen from the Greensand Way (long distance path) near Bucksford Lane. View looks North-eastwards to the North Downs near Ashford. It looks over the new De Montford Park housing Estate.

This bridge is used by a bridleway heading from Great Chart to Mock Lane. It is also used by the Greensand Way (long distance path).

Seen from the bridleway bridge near Great Chart. The A28 leads from Tenterden and Bethersden to Ashford.

Seen from the bridleway bridge near Great Chart. The A28 leads from Ashford to Bethersden and Tenterden.

Planning permission has been granted by Ashford Borough Council under application number 12/00400/AS, for an “outline application for a Comprehensive Mixed Use Development comprising: up to 5,750 residential units, in a mix of sizes, types and tenures; up to 10,000 m² (gross external floor space) of Class Bl use; up to 9,000 m² (gross external floor space) of Class Al to A5 uses; Education (including a secondary school of up to 8 ha and up to four primary schools of up to 2.1 ha each); Community Uses (class Dl) up to 7,000 m² (gross external floor space); Leisure Uses (class D2) up to 6,000 m² (gross external floor space); Provision of local recycling facilities; Provision of areas of formal and informal open space; Installation of appropriate utilities infrastructure as required to serve the development, including flood attenuation works, SUDS, water supply and wastewater infrastructure, gas supply, electricity supply (including substations), telecommunications infrastructure and renewable energy infrastructure (including CHP in the District Centre); Transport infrastructure, including provision of three accesses on to the A28, an access on to Coulter Road/Cuckoo Lane, other connections on to the local road network, and a network of internal roads, footpaths and cycle routes; New planting and landscaping, both within the Proposed Development and on its boundaries, and ecological enhancement works; and associated ground works where appearance, landscaping, layout and scale are reserved for future approval and where access is reserved for future approval with the exception of the three accesses on to the A28 and the access on to Coulter Road/Cuckoo Lane”. The road is part of the Chilmington Green development and this part is at the far end of the view of Image