A plan setting out proposed locations for thousands of homes across a Kent district has been put out for public consultation. Some of the most controversial allocations for homes around Canterbury, Whitstable and Herne Bay have been scrapped, but others described the process as like a game of "whack-a-mole" with new sites elsewhere instead.

Canterbury City Council's (CCC) draft local plan, which will govern housebuilding across the district until 2040 and earmarks sites for 9,346 new houses, was originally released in March last year. That version scrapped the controversial plan for a traffic zoning system in Canterbury, which would have regulated how frequently drivers could drive from one part of the city to another without incurring a charge, but also included plans for a "new rural se

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