Hundreds of local Kent residents at the time took part in peaceful demonstrations across the county to protest local and national Government policy of building on green fields.
In a statement, Bob said: “I fully support Save Kent’s Green Spaces Day of Action.
“Not just Kent’s green spaces but Kent’s towns, villages, farms, communities.
“I have lived in Kent for 40 odd years and to see what amounts to a full-scale attack on the county and its people by the central government planners gives a lie to this government’s binding commitments to the UN Sustainable Development Goals of which Prime Minister David Cameron was co-chair, its own agreements under COP26 and Boris Johnson’s promise that they ‘would not build on green fields’ from the Conservative Party conference in October.
“17,000 acres of green fields of England are to disappear under concrete, Prime Minister.