A team of industry chiefs and architects have publicly announced plans to build a 250 acre freight terminal in Borough Green.

Journalists and TV crews were invited to Borough Green Sandpits on Monday for tours of the site where the conglomeration hopes to build a road/rail freight terminal dubbed Kent Rail & Freight Terminal (KRAFT).

The media offensive was designed to steal thunder from the similar Kent International Gateway proposal at Bearsted, which is to be decided in a planning inquiry beginning this week.

Helicopter tours took media over both the KRAFT and KIG site, in an effort to demonstrate that the industry-dominated site at Borough Green is more suited to development.

The KRAFT team says it will await the outcome of KIG planning inquiry before drawing up an official planning application.