ABOUT USOur Priorities
1. Embracing Growth and Enabling Infrastructure
2. A Thriving Place
3. Homes and Communities
4. Safe, Clean and Green
Our values and competencies
Underpinning what we do at Maidstone Borough Council are our values and competency framework.
- Work Together
- Respect Everyone
- Develop and Grow
- Make A Difference
- Care
Our competency framework describes how we want to work and ‘the way we do things round here’, and puts our values at the heart of everything we do.
Living and working in Maidstone
Maidstone has a location to be proud of and is the County town of Kent. The town is the main town of Maidstone borough, which includes the surrounding rural areas except to the north-west. The town is divided into the 12 local government wards of Allington, Bridge, Downswood and Otham, East, Fant, Heath, High Street, Park Wood, Shepway North, Shepway South, South, and North. These wards have 30 of the 55 seats on Borough Council.
Maidstone Borough Council is responsible for services such as recreation, refuse collection, most planning decisions and social housing.
With fantastic shopping at Fremlin Walk and Maidstone Market, fabulous food and drink crafted from local produce, a calendar of great events, and unique experiences to be had, few places in the South East provide quite as many opportunities as Maidstone.
Our Net-Zero commitment
We have committed to becoming carbon neutral by 2030. Carbon Neutrality also referred to as Net-Zero can be achieved through reducing existing emissions and actively removing greenhouse gases. We have committed to achieving Net-Zero for our own operations by 2030 and our long-term aspiration is to become carbon negative or a footprint less than neutral, so that we have a net effect of removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
At a borough wide-scale, in accordance with national government targets, and based on Tyndall Centre data, we have set out carbon reduction milestones to reduce CO2 emissions by -13.4% each year across the borough to reach near to Net-Zero by 2041. However, it must be noted that the fairness of this target is contingent on many aspects and not the sole responsibility of the council due to economic factors, private sector, transport sector, and wide-scale public behaviour change.
We are committed to embedding the Biodiversity and Climate Change Action Plan into our Strategic Plan and all of our decisions and actions, as climate resilience and biodiversity enhancement bring a multitude of co-benefits that incorporate many positive aspects of our mandate, including environmental, social, job creation, equity and social cohesion, health and wellbeing, citizen engagement, and the economy.
