Words by Councillor John Irwin 1. How many new houses for Faversham? The housing target for Swale Borough Council is set by the...

Words by Jonathan Carey, Harold Goodwin, Ray Harrison, The Faversham Society Market Place photo taken by Robert Warren At the heart of...

Words by Harold Goodwin, Faversham Community Land Trust One of the things that makes Faversham special is the extended families, many of...

Words by Matthew Hatchwell Faversham sits on a strip of fertile land that runs between the chalk downs of north Kent and the Thames...

Words by Hannah Perkin A liveable town is one that thrives and evolves but doesn’t lose its sense of self. A liveable town houses...

THE AMATEUR EDITION We are very reasonably depressed by the ongoing incompetence being shown by our national politicians and the future...

By Rich Lehmann On the afternoon of 2nd May, I headed off to Conyer with my wife, Bea. It was the first time I'd driven a car for seven...

By Claudia Heywood It’s August 2020, we’re heading into probably the worst recession any of us will live through and the Covid-19 cloud...

By: Brian Pain and David Rottenborough our local government correspondent How a small clique of Parish councillors can manipulate the law...

For this instalment of Tastes of Faversham we sent our tasters out in pursuit of the best bacon sarnie in town. It is regularly voted the...

By Andy Capon The University of West Ospringe celebrated its 55th birthday this week with the opening of a new library. Faversham MP and...

One of the best things that has come out of the Covid crisis is that we have all had to rethink our shopping habits – for the better. We...

By Brian Pain It was only a matter of time before property developer Michael White applied again for planning permission on Ordnance...

The Faversham Eye – Telling you stuff somebody doesn’t want you to know since 2019... We have naturally been devastated by the decision...

By Richard Belfield As soon as David Rose, the inspector for the Cleve Hill enquiry, was appointed it was an easy bet to see what the...

The Faversham Eye is, and will remain, freely available to all in the town. It is an independent community newspaper, funded by Brian...

Because it takes more than the biggest global crisis in a century to stop the Faversham Eye. In just a few brief months, Coronavirus has...

As we are all painfully aware, Faversham is suffering a flood of new housing developments which threaten the character and identity of...

By Richard Fleury The whole world will remember 2020 as the year of coronavirus. In Faversham, as elsewhere, the outbreak has caused the...

In the last issue of the Eye, we highlighted how Faversham's farmers faced disastrous labour shortages this season as EU workers stay...