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several attempts by the charity to obtain planning permission for a large number of houses on the site. All of these proposals were refused by Rother
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The Blue Cross animal charity which ran a rescue centre within the village closed down around 2015. It had originally opened in the 1960s. The Blue Cross chief executive, Kim
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