Tollgate Hotel

Historical records for the Tollgate Hotel, or the Turnpike Gate Inn, show an inn on the site by the mid-1820s."Historical records show that the Tollgate Inn (or Turnpike Gate Inn) was present at this site immediately adjacent to the east side of the Wrotham Road in about 1827" [https://web.archive.org/web/20250522152958/https://democracy.gravesham.gov.uk/documents/s41015/20160215%20-%20Tollgate%20revised%202018%20version.pdf#:~:text=demolition%20of%20two%20dwellings%20,AQMA%20was%20amended%20in%202012 Summary Report: Tollgate Hotel Site Redevelopment – Petrol Filling Station Proposal | Gravesham Borough Council] In 1922 the original “Toll Gate Inn” was demolished to widen the A2; it was replaced by a new 1923 “roadhouse” inn"was demolished in 1922 as part of a road widening scheme for the then A2 and rebuilt on its current site the following year as a 'roadhouse' type inn" [https://web.archive.org/web/20250522152958/https://democracy.gravesham.gov.uk/documents/s41015/20160215%20-%20Tollgate%20revised%202018%20version.pdf Summary Report: Tollgate Hotel Site Redevelopment – Petrol Filling Station Proposal | Gravesham Borough Council] designed by the George Clay Partnership.{{Cite web |date=2025-05-22 |title=Timeline |url=https://claymakingplaces.org.uk/exhibition/decades/timeline |access-date=2025-05-22 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250522153032/https://claymakingplaces.org.uk/exhibition/decades/timeline |archive-date=22 May 2025 }}https://web.archive.org/web/20250522152958/https://democracy.gravesham.gov.uk/documents/s41015/20160215%20-%20Tollgate%20revised%202018%20version.pdf#:~:text=demolition%20of%20two%20dwellings%20,AQMA%20was%20amended%20in%202012 {{Bare URL inline|date=May 2025}} This mock-Tudor style building (in the north-west corner of the site) – along with later flat-roofed hotel wings – survived for many decades.https://web.archive.org/web/20250522153337/https://democracy.gravesham.gov.uk/documents/s22333/Report.pdf#:~:text=The%20buildings%20comprise%20a%20group,site%20which%20were%20the%20restaurant {{Bare URL inline|date=May 2025}} During World War II the complex served as a local battle headquarters and anti-invasion defence point.{{Cite web |last=Historic Environment Record |first=Kent County Council |date=2025-05-22 |title=TQ 67 SW 1168 - Tollgate Second World War Battle Headquarters, Gravesend - Historic Environment Record |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250522153542/https://heritage.kent.gov.uk/Monument/MKE41727#:~:text=Tollgate%20Second%20World%20War%20Battle%20Headquarters,%20Gravesend |url-status=live |archive-url=https://heritage.kent.gov.uk/Monument/MKE41727#:~:text=Tollgate%20Second%20World%20War%20Battle%20Headquarters%2C%20Gravesend |archive-date=2025-05-22 |access-date=2025-05-22 |website=Kent Historic Environment Record (Kent HER)}} In 1971 the hotel was enlarged by 60 bedrooms{{Cite web |last=Gravesham |first=Discover |date=2025-05-22 |title=1967-1973 {{!}} Discover Gravesham |url=https://www.discovergravesham.co.uk/gravesend-chronology/1967-1973.html#:~:text=The%20Tollgate%20Motel,%20on%20the%20A2%20was%20extended%20by%2060%20rooms. |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250522154005/https://www.discovergravesham.co.uk/gravesend-chronology/1967-1973.html#:~:text=The%20Tollgate%20Motel,%20on%20the%20A2%20was%20extended%20by%2060%20rooms. |archive-date=2025-05-22 |access-date=2025-05-22 |website=Discover Gravesham - virtual museum |page=1 |language=en |agency=Gravesham Borough Council}} and rebranded as the Tollgate Motel/Europa Lodge.{{Cite book |last=Council |first=Gravesham Borough |url=https://democracy.gravesham.gov.uk/documents/s22333/Report.pdf |title=Redevelopment of Former Tollgate Hotel Site for Petrol Station and Drive-Through Facility – Application by BP Oil UK (2013) |publisher=Gravesham Borough Council |year=2014 |publication-date=2014-01-15 |page=1 |language=en |chapter=1. Site Description |archive-url=https://archive.org/details/BP_OilUK_TollgateHotel_Redevelopment_Application20131018 |archive-date=2025-05-24 |url-status=live}} Later 20th-century planning records also note granted (but unbuilt) extensions in 1994 and 2002. In all known records the site operated as a hotel (Class C1)"Tollgate Motel and Europa Lodge, contains a number of hotel buildings with existing Class C1 (Hotels) use rights." [https://web.archive.org/web/20250522152958/https://democracy.gravesham.gov.uk/documents/s41015/20160215%20-%20Tollgate%20revised%202018%20version.pdf Summary Report: Tollgate Hotel Site Redevelopment – Petrol Filling Station Proposal | Gravesham Borough Council] until its closure; it was part of the Russell’s Brewery tied estate{{Cite web |date=2025-05-22 |title= |url=http://www.dover-kent.com/2014-photos2/Toll-Gate-Inn2-Gravesend.jpg |access-date=2025-05-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250522210828/http://www.dover-kent.com/2014-photos2/Toll-Gate-Inn2-Gravesend.jpg |archive-date=22 May 2025 }}{{Cite web |last=Gravesend & Darent Valley Branch of CAMRA |title=Tollgate Motel, Gravesend |url=https://camra.org.uk/pubs/tollgate-motel-gravesend-175536#:~:text=As%20can%20be%20seen%20from%20the%20archive%20photographs%2C%20the%20pub%20was%20for%20many%20years%20part%20of%20the%20local%20Russell's%20brewery's%20tied%20estate. |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.ph/wcWLG#selection-5279.0-5279.123#:~:text=As%20can%20be%20seen%20from%20the%20archive%20photographs%2C%20the%20pub%20was%20for%20many%20years%20part%20of%20the%20local%20Russell's%20brewery's%20tied%20estate. |archive-date=2025-05-22 |website=CAMRA (Campaign for Real Ale) |publisher=Campaign for Real Ale |page=1 |agency=Gravesend & Darent Valley Branch of CAMRA}}{{Cite web |date=2013-03-14 |title=When Brick Lane was home to the biggest brewery in the world - Zythophile |url=https://zythophile.co.uk/2013/03/14/when-brick-lane-was-home-to-the-biggest-brewery-in-the-world/#:~:text=In%201930%20Truman%E2%80%99s%20made%20another,acquired%20the%20six%20or%20so |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250522174912/https://zythophile.co.uk/2013/03/14/when-brick-lane-was-home-to-the-biggest-brewery-in-the-world/#:~:text=In%201930%20Truman%E2%80%99s%20made%20another%20of%20its%20rare%20take-overs%2C%20buying%20Russell%E2%80%99s%20West%20Street%20brewery%20in%20Gravesend%2C%20Kent%20and%20its%20223%20tied%20houses.%20Russell%E2%80%99s%2C%20which%20dated%20back%20to%20at%20least%201834%2C%20when%20it%20was%20called%20Heathorn%20%26%20Plane%2C%20had%20itself%20acquired%20four%20other%20breweries%20in%20North%20Kent%20and%20one%20in%20Essex.%20About%20the%20same%20time%20that%20it%20bought%20Russell%E2%80%99s%2C%20Truman%E2%80%99s%20seems%20to%20have%20acquired%20the%20six%20or%20so |archive-date=2025-05-22 |access-date=2025-05-22 |website=Zythophile |language=en-GB}} (later inheriting Truman company ownership).{{Cite web |last=McConnell |first=Ed |date=2018-02-08 |year=2018 |orig-date=2018-02-08 |title=Plans to turn Tollgate Hotel next to the A2 into BP petrol station approved |url=https://www.kentonline.co.uk/gravesend/news/controversial-hotel-plans-set-for-159851 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.is/TVaGy |archive-date=2025-05-22 |access-date=2018-02-08 |website=Kent Online |publisher=KentOnline |page=1 |language=en |publication-date=2018-02-08 |via=KM Media Group |agency=KM Media Group}}

Throughout its existence, the Tollgate complex was mostly a mid-20th-century structure. The only architecturally “historic” elements dated from the 1920s rebuild or later 1970s additions – there are no intact Victorian features. Planning documents describe the former hotel’s restaurant/reception block as “Mock Tudor style” and note the flat-roofed two-storey bedroom blocks.

By 2006 the Tollgate Motel had fallen out of use.{{Cite web |last=McPolin |first=Sean |date=2020-01-13 |year=2020 |orig-date=2020-01-13 |title=£220k spent on security for derelict hotel |url=https://www.kentonline.co.uk/gravesend/news/220k-spent-on-security-for-derelict-hotel-220038/#:~:text=The%20Tollgate%20Hotel%20on%20the%20A2,%20near%20Gravesend,%20was%20shut%20in%202006 |access-date=2025-05-22 |website=Kent Online |publisher=KentOnline |language=en |publication-date=2020-01-13 |agency=KM Media Group}} The Secretary of State for Transport’s Highways Agency compulsorily purchased the 2.5‑acre site in November 2006 (for £4.85 million){{Cite web |date=2013-11-21 |title=Tollgate Hotel plan revealed |url=https://www.kentonline.co.uk/gravesend/news/tollgate-hotel-plan-revealed-9187/#:~:text=Highways%20Agency%20bought%20the%20hotel%20under%20a%20compulsory%20purchase%20order%20in%20November%202006%20for%20%C2%A34.85 |access-date=2025-05-22 |website=Kent Online |language=en}} to facilitate the Bean-to-Cobham A2 widening."the A2 Pepperhill to Cobham scheme’s being at Tollgate and Pepperhill" [https://web.archive.org/web/20250522190344/https://democracy.kent.gov.uk/mgConvert2PDF.aspx?ID=2418&T=10 Kent County Council Highways Advisory Board Meeting Agenda — 6 March 2007] The hotel was then partly used as a works depot:"The Tollgate Hotel, which is significantly effected by the widening works, was acquired by the Highways Agency and is being used as a site office" [https://web.archive.org/web/20250522190730/https://democracy.kent.gov.uk:9071/documents/s3233/Item%209-A2%20Pepperhill%20to%20Cobham%20Widening%20Scheme.pdf Progress Report on the A2 Pepperhill to Cobham Widening, A2/A282 Improvement, and M25 Junction 1B to 3 Widening Schemes] planning permission was granted in late 2006 for Skanska (the A2 contractors){{Cite web |date=2025-05-22 |orig-date=2003-07-31 |title=Skanska appointed for £68.9m A2 road widening scheme |url=https://www.skanska.co.uk/about-skanska/news-and-events/press-releases/50961/Skanska-appointed-for-68.9m-A2-road-widening-scheme |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250522202437/https://www.skanska.co.uk/about-skanska/news-and-events/press-releases/50961/Skanska-appointed-for-68.9m-A2-road-widening-scheme |archive-date=2025-05-22 |access-date=2003-07-31 |website=Skanska |publisher=Skanska UK |page=1 |language=English}} to use the buildings as temporary site offices until the new A2 opened in 2009."Also, the Tollgate on the A2 has been closed as a hotel and is currently being used by Skanska as a base for the A2 widening project." [https://web.archive.org/web/20250522202718/https://democracy.gravesham.gov.uk/documents/g736/Public%20reports%20pack%20Wednesday%2016-Apr-2008%2019.00%20Regulatory%20Board.pdf?T=10 Regulatory Board Meeting Agenda – 16 April 2008 | Gravesham Borough Council]{{Cite web |date=2025-05-22 |title=Agenda item - A2 Pepperhill to Cobham Widening Scheme, A2/A282 Improvement Scheme and M25 J1b to 3 Widening |url=https://democracy.kent.gov.uk/mgAi.aspx?ID=5265#:~:text=The%20Tollgate%20Hotel, |access-date=2025-05-22 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250522185118/https://democracy.kent.gov.uk/mgAi.aspx?ID=5265#:~:text=The%20Tollgate%20Hotel, |archive-date=22 May 2025 }} A motel wing at the south end was demolished to construct a new coast-bound slip road, together with two nearby cottages (Shrimp Brand Cottages). Thereafter all hotel operations ceased and the property remained unused, fenced and guarded.{{Cite web |last=McPolin |first=Sean |date=2020-01-13 |title=£220k spent on security for derelict hotel |url=https://www.kentonline.co.uk/gravesend/news/220k-spent-on-security-for-derelict-hotel-220038/#:~:text=security%20at%20the%20Tollgate%20Hotel |access-date=2025-05-22 |website=Kent Online |language=en}} The vacant site has repeatedly been described as "an eye sore"The Toll Gate hotel land has been empty years and is an eyesore but the council is not keen to develop it as they want to preserve the green belt, while letting the farmers field by Wrotham Road get hundreds of houses. Let’s go with consistency not money." [https://web.archive.org/web/20240910141703/https://democracy.gravesham.gov.uk/documents/s78730/Corporate%20Plan%202023-27%20-%20Consultation%20Appendix%202.pdf Gravesham Borough Council Corporate Plan 2023–27: Public Consultation Report and Service Priorities – Appendix 2]" that has required continuous security (fencing, patrols and alarms).

As of 2025 the site still remains largely derelict, such as the 1923 core and motel wings.{{Cite web |date=2025-03-04 |title='The area needs this, get it done' - Hundreds back plan to redevelop 'eyesore' A2 hotel |url=https://www.kentonline.co.uk/gravesend/news/the-area-needs-this-get-it-done-hundreds-back-plan-to-r-320882/#:~:text=Hundreds%20have%20backed%20proposals%20to%20turn%20a%20derelict%20hotel |access-date=2025-05-22 |website=Kent Online |language=en}} The remaining left has been planned for demolition.{{Cite web |date=2025-05-22 |title=Notice near DA12 1EW, DA11 8BP and 1 more {{!}} Public Notice Portal |url=https://publicnoticeportal.uk/notice/planning/671f8c8eb3aad2538658b753#:~:text=Former%20Tollgate%20Hotel,%20Watling%20Street,%20Gravesend,%20Kent%20-%20Demolition%20of%20existing%20buildings |access-date=2025-05-22 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250522203041/https://publicnoticeportal.uk/notice/planning/671f8c8eb3aad2538658b753#:~:text=Former%20Tollgate%20Hotel,%20Watling%20Street,%20Gravesend,%20Kent%20-%20Demolition%20of%20existing%20buildings |archive-date=22 May 2025 }}

Major dates and events for the Tollgate site include:

• c.1827: Original Toll Gate Inn (or Turnpike Gate Inn) established on Watling Street.{{Cite web |last=Frith |first=Francis |date=2025-05-22 |title=Photo of Gravesend, The Toll Gate Inn 1922 - Francis Frith |url=https://www.francisfrith.com/gravesend/gravesend-the-toll-gate-inn-1922_g47511 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250522220119/https://www.francisfrith.com/gravesend/gravesend-the-toll-gate-inn-1922_g47511 |archive-date=2025-05-22 |access-date=2025-05-22 |website=The Francis Frith Collection |page=1 |language=English |via=Frith Content Inc. |agency=Heritage Content Company Limited}}
• 1922–23: Old inn demolished for A2 road widening; rebuilt as Tollgate Inn (a “roadhouse”‑style pub) in 1923.
• 1939: (Brewing change) Russell’s Brewery (local tied estate owner) taken over by Truman’s.
• 1971: Extended by 60 rooms and rebranded Tollgate Motel/Europa Lodge.
• 1994: Large extension (63 rooms with swimming pool) granted planning permission (not implemented).
• November 2006: Highways Agency CPO purchase (£4.85M) for A2 improvements.{{Cite web |last=reject |first=mockney |date=2020-11-24 |year=2020 |orig-date=2020-11-24 |title=Report – Tollgate Hotel, Gravesend – Kent – July 2016 {{!}} 28DaysLater.co.uk |url=https://www.28dayslater.co.uk/threads/tollgate-hotel-gravesend-kent-july-2016.126234/#:~:text=Tollgate%20Hotel%20was%20bought%20by%20the%20Highways%20Agency%20under%20a%20compulsory%20purchase%20order%20in%20November%202006%20for%20%C2%A34.85%20million%20when%20the%20A2%20was%20widened. |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250522182823/https://www.28dayslater.co.uk/threads/tollgate-hotel-gravesend-kent-july-2016.126234/#:~:text=Tollgate%20Hotel%20was%20bought%20by%20the%20Highways%20Agency%20under%20a%20compulsory%20purchase%20order%20in%20November%202006%20for%20%C2%A34.85%20million%20when%20the%20A2%20was%20widened. |archive-date=2025-05-22 |access-date=2020-11-24 |website=28DaysLater.co.uk }}{{Cite web |last=McConnell |first=Ed |date=2018-02-08 |title=Controversial hotel plans approval |url=https://www.kentonline.co.uk/gravesend/news/controversial-hotel-plans-set-for-159851/#:~:text=Highways%20Agency%20bought%20it%20under%20a%20compulsory%20purchase%20order%20for%20%C2%A34.85%20million%20to%20facilitate%20the%20A2%20widening%20scheme. |access-date=2025-05-22 |website=Kent Online |language=en}}
• 2006–2009: Buildings used as site offices for A2 widening.{{Cite web |date=2025-05-22 |title=20060823 {{!}} Change of use of hotel complex into temporary site offices for 'A2 Pepperhill to Cobham' road widening scheme involving erection of a two metre high hoarding around the site. {{!}} Tollgate Hotel Watling Street Gravesend Kent DA13 9RA |url=https://plan.gravesham.gov.uk/online-applications/applicationDetails.do?keyVal=ZZZZYYHPXC082&activeTab=summary |access-date=2025-05-22 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250522221113/https://plan.gravesham.gov.uk/online-applications/applicationDetails.do?keyVal=ZZZZYYHPXC082&activeTab=summary |archive-date=22 May 2025 }}{{Cite web| title=Demolition of former hotel/restaurant and erection of a petrol filling station and forecourts with underground fuel tanks | url=https://democracy.gravesham.gov.uk/documents/s22333/Report.pdf#:~:text=is%20currently%20unoccupied%20having%20last,temporary%20basis%20as%20site%20offices | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250522153337/https://democracy.gravesham.gov.uk/documents/s22333/Report.pdf | archive-date=2025-05-22}}{{Cite web |last=McConnell |first=Ed |date=2018-02-08 |title=Controversial hotel plans approval |url=https://www.kentonline.co.uk/gravesend/news/controversial-hotel-plans-set-for-159851/#:~:text=Site%20offices%20were%20based%20there,suitable%20for%20continued%20hotel%20use |access-date=2025-05-22 |website=Kent Online |language=en}}
• 2006: Hotel closed in 2006{{Cite web |date=2024-08-22 |title=New BP garage and M&S planned for derelict hotel site off A2 |url=https://www.kentonline.co.uk/gravesend/news/new-bp-garage-and-m-s-planned-for-derelict-a2-eyesore-hotel-311713/#:~:text=The%20Tollgate%20Hotel,%20along%20the%20A2%20near%20Gravesend,%20could%20be%20set%20for%20a%20new%20lease%20of%20life%20after%20closing%20in%202006. |access-date=2025-05-22 |website=Kent Online |language=en}} and placed on the market as surplus after roadworks.{{Cite web |date=2013-11-21 |title=Tollgate Hotel plan revealed |url=https://www.kentonline.co.uk/gravesend/news/tollgate-hotel-plan-revealed-9187/#:~:text=Since%20then%20it%20has%20been%20empty%20with%20access%20to%20the%20site,%20off%20the%20roundabout%20that%20leads%20onto%20the%20A2,%20blocked%20off%20with%20concrete%20bollards.(function(a,f,e)%7Bvar%20c,b=a.getElementsByTagName(f)%5B0%5D;c=a.createElement(f);c.className=e;c.src=%22//player.ex.co/player/6cb5ed10-eed8-4fec-b900-6dc76da89d1d%22;b.parentNode.insertBefore(c,b)%7D(document,%22script%22,%22exco-player%22));%20%20For%20several%20years%20it%20was%20offered%20for%20sale |access-date=2025-05-22 |website=Kent Online |language=en}}{{Cite web |date=2014-10-02 |title=Costly Tollgate blunder |url=https://www.kentonline.co.uk/gravesend/news/costly-tollgate-blunder-24452/#:~:text=Once%20that%20was%20finished,%20for%20several%20years%20it%20was%20offered%20for%20sale%20and%20marketed%20as%20a%20site%20suitable%20for%20continued%20hotel%20use. |access-date=2025-05-22 |website=Kent Online |language=en}}
• 2007: Coast-bound slip built"The Cyclopark has a dedicated entrance / exit onto the Wrotham Road on what was the former coast bound slip road onto the old A2 and which serves also as an access to a number of residential properties in Wrotham Road and to the Tollgate service station" [https://democracy.gravesham.gov.uk/documents/s29956/Report.pdf Cyclopark Commuter Car Parking Application | Gravesham Borough Council] (Turnpike Service Station{{Cite web |last=Wood |first=John |date=2014-02-11 |year=2014 |orig-date=2014-02-11 |title=BP accused of trying to wipe out customer's site |url=https://forecourttrader.co.uk/retailers/bp-accused-of-trying-to-wipe-out-customers-site/634791.article#:~:text=BP%20said%20it%20had%20previously%20owned%20and%20operated%20the%20Turnpike%20service%20station |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250522182158/https://forecourttrader.co.uk/retailers/bp-accused-of-trying-to-wipe-out-customers-site/634791.article#:~:text=BP%20said%20it%20had%20previously%20owned%20and%20operated%20the%20Turnpike%20service%20station |archive-date=2025-05-22 |access-date=2014-02-11 |website=Forecourt Trader |publisher=William Reed Ltd |page=1 |language=en |publication-date=2014-02-11 |agency=William Reed Ltd}} west of site was demolished in roadworks).{{Cite web| title=Demolition of former hotel/restaurant and erection of a petrol filling station and forecourts with underground fuel tanks | url=https://democracy.gravesham.gov.uk/documents/s22333/Report.pdf#:~:text=There%20was%20an%20additional%20petrol,of%20the%20A2%20widening%20scheme | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250522153337/https://democracy.gravesham.gov.uk/documents/s22333/Report.pdf | archive-date=2025-05-22}}
• 2013: New planning application (Ref. 2013018) by BP Oil UK and McDonald’s for petrol station and drive-through on the whole site.{{Cite web |date=2013-11-21 |title=Tollgate Hotel plan revealed |url=https://www.kentonline.co.uk/gravesend/news/tollgate-hotel-plan-revealed-9187/#:~:text=The%20Tollgate%20Hotel%20is%20to,McDonald%E2%80%99s,%20the%20Messenger%20can%20reveal |access-date=2025-05-22 |website=Kent Online |language=en}}{{Cite web |date=2025-05-22 |title=20131018 {{!}} ***REVISED PLANS/ADDITIONAL SUPPORTING INFORMATION/REVISED RED LINE PLAN*** Demolition of former hotel/restaurant and erection of a petrol filling station and forecourts with underground fuel tanks, sales building with ATM, restaurant with drive-through facility, AC/refrigeration units, refuse/recycling, substation, vehicular access, parking provision and associated works and services. {{!}} Tollgate Hotel Watling Street Gravesend Kent DA13 9RA |url=https://plan.gravesham.gov.uk/online-applications/applicationDetails.do?keyVal=MVQVY9HP01C00&activeTab=summary |access-date=2025-05-22 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250522221354/https://plan.gravesham.gov.uk/online-applications/applicationDetails.do?keyVal=MVQVY9HP01C00&activeTab=summary |archive-date=22 May 2025 }}
• Jan 2014: Gravesham Borough Council approves BP/McDonald’s scheme{{Cite web |last=reporter |first=KentOnline |date=2014-01-16 |title=Council approves petrol station plan |url=https://www.kentonline.co.uk/gravesend/news/i-will-not-be-moved-10999/ |access-date=2025-05-22 |website=Kent Online |language=en}} despite massive public opposition (1784‑signature petition, 366 letters).{{Cite web |last=Skelton |first=Paul |date=2022-12-01 |title=TOLL GATE Pub of Gravesend |url=http://www.dover-kent.com/2014-project-c/Toll-Gate-Gravesend.html#:~:text=In%20total%20there%20were%2033%20objection%20letters,%20363%20circular%20letters%20and%20a%20 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221201101030/http://www.dover-kent.com/2014-project-c/Toll-Gate-Gravesend.html#:~:text=In%20total%20there%20were%2033%20objection%20letters,%20363%20circular%20letters%20and%20a%20 |archive-date=2022-12-01 |access-date=2025-05-22 |website=Dover-Kent.com |publisher=Paul Skelton |pages=1 |language=en |agency=Paul Skelton}}
• February - June 2014: Judicial Review by adjacent Tollgate Service Station owner (Simon Privett){{Cite web |date=2025-05-22 |title=Simon Jeremy Privett personal appointments - Find and update company information - GOV.UK |url=https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/officers/Dxdwb6BudHSLzQgK8VPxJzm6Abo/appointments#:~:text=Tollgate%20Service%20Station,%20Watling%20Street,%20Gravesend,%20Kent, |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250522211302/https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/officers/Dxdwb6BudHSLzQgK8VPxJzm6Abo/appointments#:~:text=Tollgate%20Service%20Station,%20Watling%20Street,%20Gravesend,%20Kent, |archive-date=22 May 2025 |access-date=2025-05-22 |website=Find and update company information - GOV.UK |language=en}}{{Cite web |date=2014-10-02 |title=Costly Tollgate blunder |url=https://www.kentonline.co.uk/gravesend/news/costly-tollgate-blunder-24452/#:~:text=Simon%20Privett,%20owner%20of%20the%20nearby%20Tollgate%20Service%20Station,%20lodged%20judicial%20review%20proceedings%20soon%20after. |access-date=2025-05-22 |website=Kent Online |language=en}} quashes the 2014 permission{{Cite web |date=2025-05-22 |title=BP garage owner still fighting BP plan to 'wipe him out' |url=https://forecourttrader.co.uk/news/bp-garage-owner-still-fighting-bp-plan-to-wipe-him-out/635728.article#:~:text=The%20development%20was%20given%20planning%20permission%20on%20January%2015,%20but%20Simon%20applied%20for%20a%20judicial%20review%20of%20the%20decision%20and%20the%20council%20caved%20in%20before%20it%20went%20to%20court%20and%20the%20decision%20was%20quashed. |access-date=2025-05-22 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250522215524/https://forecourttrader.co.uk/news/bp-garage-owner-still-fighting-bp-plan-to-wipe-him-out/635728.article#:~:text=The%20development%20was%20given%20planning%20permission%20on%20January%2015,%20but%20Simon%20applied%20for%20a%20judicial%20review%20of%20the%20decision%20and%20the%20council%20caved%20in%20before%20it%20went%20to%20court%20and%20the%20decision%20was%20quashed. |archive-date=22 May 2025 }} for Green Belt policy failings.{{Cite web |date=2014-10-02 |title=Costly Tollgate blunder |url=https://www.kentonline.co.uk/gravesend/news/costly-tollgate-blunder-24452/#:~:text=Approved%20plans%20to%20turn%20an%20old%20hotel%20into%20a%20petrol%20station,%20M&S%20food%20shop%20and%20McDonald%E2%80%99s%20have%20been%20quashed. |access-date=2025-05-22 |website=Kent Online |language=en}}
• July 2015: Revised BP/McDonald’s application granted by council after further objections.{{Cite web |date=2025-05-22 |title=20160215 {{!}} Demolition of all former Tollgate hotel/restaurant buildings and construction of a petrol filling station and forecourts, sales building, ATM, underground fuel tanks, refuse/recycling, AC/refridgeration units, vehicular access, substation, parking and all associated works and services on part of site. {{!}} Tollgate Hotel Watling Street Gravesend Kent DA13 9RA |url=https://plan.gravesham.gov.uk/online-applications/applicationDetails.do?keyVal=O3OEZ2HP01800&activeTab=summary |access-date=2025-05-22 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250522221544/https://plan.gravesham.gov.uk/online-applications/applicationDetails.do?keyVal=O3OEZ2HP01800&activeTab=summary |archive-date=22 May 2025 }}
• August 2015 - March 2016: Privett again wins Judicial Review (permission quashed over planning report error). BP withdraws this application in November 2017.
• March 2016: BP Oil UK submits new application (20160215) for petrol filling station only on western part of site.
• February 2018: Gravesham approves the BP-only scheme. Privett appeals and Inspector rescinds permission (citing hotel reuse potential).
• 2019: Highways England finally proceeds with sale to BP UK (contract became unconditional after planning delays).{{Cite web |date=2025-05-22 |title=Written questions and answers - Written questions, answers and statements - UK Parliament |url=https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2019-04-10/243371/#:~:text=As%20a%20result,%20Highways%20England%20have%20now%20agreed%20with%20BP%20to%20move%20to%20an%20unconditional%20contract;%20this%20means%20the%20sale%20will%20no%20longer%20be%20dependent%20on%20gaining%20planning%20permission,%20and%20Highways%20England%20will%20now%20be%20able%20to%20move%20forward%20with%20the%20sale. |access-date=2025-05-22 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250522205834/https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2019-04-10/243371/#:~:text=As%20a%20result,%20Highways%20England%20have%20now%20agreed%20with%20BP%20to%20move%20to%20an%20unconditional%20contract;%20this%20means%20the%20sale%20will%20no%20longer%20be%20dependent%20on%20gaining%20planning%20permission,%20and%20Highways%20England%20will%20now%20be%20able%20to%20move%20forward%20with%20the%20sale. |archive-date=22 May 2025 }}
• August 2024: BP’s EV-charging arm (BP Pulse) and Marks & Spencer announce plans for a combined fuel/E‑charging station with M&S Simply Food on the site.
• March 2025: Official application submitted for a service hub (24 EV bays, petrol pumps, M&S shop, Wild Bean Café); hundreds of residents publicly support it, but the determination is delayed by an objection from National Highways.{{Cite web |last=Langridge |first=Alex |date=2025-03-04 |year=2025 |orig-date=2025-03-04 |title='The area needs this, get it done' - Hundreds back plan to redevelop 'eyesore' A2 hotel |url=https://www.kentonline.co.uk/gravesend/news/the-area-needs-this-get-it-done-hundreds-back-plan-to-r-320882/#:~:text=Hundreds%20have%20backed%20proposals%20to,station%20and%20M&S%20food%20store |access-date=2025-05-22 |website=Kent Online |publisher=KentOnline |page=1 |language=en |agency=KM Media Group}}

The Tollgate site (2.5 ha) lies on the east side of Wrotham Road/Watling Street at the south end of Gravesend.{{Cite web |date=2020-01-13 |title=£220k spent on security for derelict hotel |url=https://www.kentonline.co.uk/gravesend/news/220k-spent-on-security-for-derelict-hotel-220038/#:~:text=2.5-acre%20plot,%20off%20Watling%20Street,%20Gravesend, |access-date=2025-05-22 |website=Kent Online |language=en}}{{Cite web |last=Jay |first=Mr Justice |date=2016-03-18 |year=2016 |orig-date=2016-03-18 |title=Privett, R (On the Application Of) v Gravesham Borough Council {{!}} [2016] EWHC 1276 (Admin) {{!}} England and Wales High Court (Administrative Court) {{!}} Judgment {{!}} Law |url=https://www.casemine.com/judgement/uk/5a8ff76460d03e7f57eac107 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250522192734/https://www.casemine.com/judgement/uk/5a8ff76460d03e7f57eac107 |archive-date=2025-05-22 |access-date=2016-03-18 |website=Casemine |language=en}} At closure it comprised a cluster of Tudor-imitative and flat-roofed motel buildings (restaurant/reception block in mock-Tudor style,{{Cite web| title=Demolition of former hotel/restaurant and erection of a petrol filling station and forecourts with underground fuel tanks | url=https://democracy.gravesham.gov.uk/documents/s22333/Report.pdf#:~:text=The%20buildings%20comprise%20a%20group,site%20which%20were%20the%20restaurant | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250522153337/https://democracy.gravesham.gov.uk/documents/s22333/Report.pdf | archive-date=2025-05-22}} plus L-shaped bedroom wings and a function-room unit). The complex fronted onto the old A2 slip road; a southern wing and two cottages were removed for the new A2 slip.{{Cite web| title=Demolition of former hotel/restaurant and erection of a petrol filling station and forecourts with underground fuel tanks | url=https://democracy.gravesham.gov.uk/documents/s22333/Report.pdf#:~:text=hotel%20had%2059%20bedrooms,the%20A2%20to%20be%20constructed | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250522153337/https://democracy.gravesham.gov.uk/documents/s22333/Report.pdf | archive-date=2025-05-22}}

The adjacent roads were reconfigured by the A2 Bean - Cobham scheme: the coast-bound slip was realigned (access now to Cyclopark) and the M2/Wrotham Road roundabout and local junctions adjusted. A former arable field to the east (used for A2 spoil storage) remained undeveloped."GR/2006/0866: Planning permission was granted for a temporary change of use of the field adjacent to the Tollgate Hotel as a storage/stock compound in connection with the A2 road widening scheme. This was on 2.7 hectare (6.6 acres of agricultural land. This was required to be reinstated upon completion of the A2 road works and this has now been carried out." [https://web.archive.org/web/20250522191439/https://democracy.gravesham.gov.uk/documents/s7183/Report.pdf Applications GR/2010/0463 & 0464: Activity Park Lighting and Usage, Gravesend]

On 18 November 2002, the Northfleet, Swanscombe and Greenhithe Lions Club held a presentation evening at the Tollgate Hotel, distributing £2,500 in cash donations to seven local charities, including Alzheimer’s and Dementia Support Services, PHAB (Physically Handicapped and Able Bodied) and Dartford and Swanley Mencap’s drop-in centre in Gravesend.{{cite news |date=18 November 2002 |year=2002 |orig-date=2002-11-18 |title=Lions hand over cash to charities |url=https://www.newsshopper.co.uk/news/6284195.lions-hand-over-cash-to-charities/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250524135522/https://www.newsshopper.co.uk/news/6284195.lions-hand-over-cash-to-charities/ |archive-date=2025-05-24 |access-date=2002-11-18 |newspaper=News Shopper |publisher=Newsquest Media Group Limited |pages=1 |language=English |publication-date=2002-11-18 |agency=Newsquest Media Group Limited}}

In August 1986, local runner Kim Stanley set what was then thought to be the first recorded “Fastest Known Time” for the 78 mi (126 km) Wealdway, starting from outside the Tollgate Hotel, Gravesend, on 23 August and finishing in Eastbourne 15 h 23 min later.{{cite journal |last=Stanley |first=Kim |date=1986-08-23 |year=1986 |orig-date=1986-08-23 |title=Running the Wealdway |url=https://fastestknowntime.com/fkt/kim-stanley-wealdway-united-kingdom-1986-08-23 |url-status=live |journal=Kent Ultra Runners Quarterly |publisher=Fastest Known Time LLC |volume=2 |issue=3 |pages=12–15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250523131136/https://fastestknowntime.com/fkt/kim-stanley-wealdway-united-kingdom-1986-08-23 |archive-date=2025-05-23}}

A 2016 planning report noted that the site was “fenced off, secure and patrolled”,{{Cite web |date=2025-05-22 |title= |url=https://democracy.gravesham.gov.uk/documents/s41015/20160215 |access-date=2025-05-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250522205030/https://democracy.gravesham.gov.uk/documents/s41015/20160215 |archive-date=22 May 2025 }} but otherwise had been "left to decay" with "grounds…unmanaged"."he site has been left unused for some years the buildings have been left to decay and the grounds are unmanaged." [https://web.archive.org/web/20250522205030/https://democracy.gravesham.gov.uk/documents/s41015/20160215 Summary Report: Tollgate Hotel Site Redevelopment – Petrol Filling Station Proposal | Gravesham Borough Council] Highways England explained that security was needed because "vacant properties can be an easy target for vandals and trespassers," and that keeping the site secured helped keep it "in a condition fit for purchase while the sale was negotiated".{{Cite web |date=2020-01-13 |title=£220k spent on security for derelict hotel |url=https://www.kentonline.co.uk/gravesend/news/220k-spent-on-security-for-derelict-hotel-220038/#:~:text=%22Vacant%20properties%20can%20be%20an%20easy%20target%20for%20vandals%20and%20trespassers%20and%20keeping%20the%20site%20secure%20since%20the%20upgrade%20opened%20has%20helped%20to%20keep%20it%20in%20a%20condition%20fit%20for%20purchase%20while%20we%20negotiated%20its%20sale.%22 |access-date=2025-05-22 |website=Kent Online |language=en}}

Security of the hotel grounds included perimeter fencing and continuous patrols. According to local reports, the operation was overseen by the facilities contractor Mitie Group plc. Highways England confirmed that costs covered both a posted guard and electronic monitoring equipment. In practice this meant a 24/7 on-site security guard (employed via Mitie) and associated electronic security kit including CCTV cameras, alarms, etc. In summary, the security set-up comprised:

• Manned guard: A Mitie security officer continuously on-site.{{Cite web |last=McPolin |first=Sean |date=2019-12-03 |title=Tollgate Hotel security - a Freedom of Information request to National Highways Limited by Sean McPolin, published via WhatDoTheyKnow |url=https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/tollgate_hotel_security |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250524130729/https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/tollgate_hotel_security |archive-date=2025-05-24 |access-date=2019-12-03 |website=WhatDoTheyKnow |language=en}}
• Electronic security: Hired surveillance equipment (cameras/alarms) to monitor the grounds.
• Fencing and patrols: High fencing around the perimeter with regular patrols.

Between 2014 and mid-2019, Highways England paid Mitie a total of £221,417.56 for security services on the Tollgate site. This expenditure was broken down as follows:

• Total security spend: £221,417.56 (paid to Mitie Group PLC).
• Highways England share: £121,417.56 (covering Nov 2014 – May 2019).{{Cite web |last=McPolin |first=Sean |date=2020-01-13 |title=£220k spent on security for derelict hotel |url=https://www.kentonline.co.uk/gravesend/news/220k-spent-on-security-for-derelict-hotel-220038/#:~:text=Highways%20England,%20who%20purchased%20the,left%20with%20a%20%C2%A3121,417%20bill |access-date=2025-05-22 |website=Kent Online |language=en}}
• Purchaser’s contribution: £100,000 (covered by BP Oil UK, the eventual buyer).

The buyer’s £100,000 contribution was provided before completion of the sale: it paid security at £1,000 per week from December 2017 to December 2018 and £2,000 per week from December 2018 to May 2019. After accounting for this, Highways England's net spend was £121,417.56 from November 2014 to May 2019. The FOI notes that "these costs also included the hire of the electronic security equipment, in addition to the posting of a guard".

Since closure, multiple redevelopment schemes have been proposed. The first major bid (2013) was by BP Oil UK to demolish the derelict hotel and build a BP petrol station on half the site and a drive-thru McDonald’s{{Cite web |last=reporter |first=KentOnline |date=2014-01-16 |year=2014 |title=Plans to turn the old Tollgate Hotel in Gravesend into a petrol station approved by Gravesham council |url=https://www.kentonline.co.uk/gravesend/news/i-will-not-be-moved-10999/#:~:text=Plans%20to%20turn%20the%20old,been%20approved%20by%20Gravesham%20council |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.ph/v0Psq |archive-date=2025-05-22 |access-date=2014-01-16 |website=Kent Online |language=en |agency=KM Media Group}} on the other half. Gravesham Borough Council’s planning board actually approved this scheme in January 2014 despite extensive local opposition (1784‑signature petition, 366 letters of objection).{{Cite web |date=2014-01-16 |title=Council approves petrol station plan |url=https://www.kentonline.co.uk/gravesend/news/i-will-not-be-moved-10999/#:~:text=In%20total%20there%20were%2033,idea%20signed%20by%201,784%20people |access-date=2025-05-22 |website=Kent Online |language=en}} However, a judicial review by the owner of the neighboring station (Simon Privett) successfully quashed the permission in June 2014. BP re-submitted essentially the same plan later in 2014. It was again approved (July 2015) but again overturned by Privett’s 2015 appeal. Facing repeated defeats, BP ultimately withdrew its BP/ McDonald’s application in November 2017.{{Cite web| title=Demolition of former hotel/restaurant and erection of a petrol filling station and forecourts with underground fuel tanks | url=https://democracy.gravesham.gov.uk/documents/s41015/20160215%20-%20Tollgate%20revised%202018%20version.pdf#:~:text=2,franchise%20on%2015%20November%202017 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250522152958/https://democracy.gravesham.gov.uk/documents/s41015/20160215%20-%20Tollgate%20revised%202018%20version.pdf | archive-date=2025-05-22}}

In the meantime BP lodged a new application ([https://plan.gravesham.gov.uk/online-applications/simpleSearchResults.do?action=firstPage Ref. 20160215]) in March 2016{{Cite web |title=Server Problem |url=https://plan.gravesham.gov.uk/online-applications/simpleSearchResults.do?action=firstPage#:~:text=Mon%2007%20Mar%202016}} for a standalone BP Connect petrol filling station and shop on the western part of the former hotel site. This plan would clear all existing buildings (demolishing the 1920s core and extensions){{Cite web |title= |url=https://plan.gravesham.gov.uk/online-applications/simpleSearchResults.do?action=firstPage#:~:text=Demolition%20of%20all%20former%20Tollgate%20hotel%2Frestaurant%20buildings}} and retain the eastern portion as a grassed “future development” area.{{Cite web| title=Demolition of former hotel/restaurant and erection of a petrol filling station and forecourts with underground fuel tanks | url=https://democracy.gravesham.gov.uk/documents/s41015/20160215%20-%20Tollgate%20revised%202018%20version.pdf#:~:text=The%20site%20is%20not%20a,be%20expected%20from%20the%20development | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250522152958/https://democracy.gravesham.gov.uk/documents/s41015/20160215%20-%20Tollgate%20revised%202018%20version.pdf | archive-date=2025-05-22}} The 2016 application generated similarly large objection (nearly 1,000 letters by 2017) primarily from the Privett-affiliated Tollgate Service Station and local residents, who cited Green Belt,{{Cite web |last=Green |first=Daniel |date=2017-10-28 |year=2017 |orig-date=2017-10-28 |title=Greenbelt threat as Gravesham council considers adding more homes |url=https://www.kentonline.co.uk/gravesend/news/gravesend-greenbelt-under-threat-by-homes-134393/#:~:text=The%20most%20vulnerable%20green%20belt%20areas%20include%20land%20east%20of%20the%20Tollgate, |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.is/UTAjn |archive-date=2025-05-24 |access-date=2017-10-28 |website=Kent Online |publisher=KM Media Group |page=1 |language=en |publication-date=2017-10-28 |agency=KM Media Group}} traffic, noise and redundancy of another fuel point (given the adjacent garage). Gravesham’s board approved the BP-only scheme in February 2018,https://democracy.gravesham.gov.uk/documents/s54369/20160215%20-%20Tollgate%20-%20Committee%20Report%20RM%20FINAL.pdf#:~:text=The%20overall%20conclusion%20therefore%20must,July%202018%20with%20any%20additional {{Bare URL inline|date=May 2025}} but Simon Privett, again, challenged it. In mid-2018 a High Court judgment rescinded the permission on Green Belt grounds, quashing the council’s decision. With that “third” attempt foiled, the site remained unsold for several more years. In 2019 Highways England finally agreed to proceed with the sale to BP (their conditional contract was made unconditional as planning hurdles persisted).{{Cite web |last=MP |first=Adam Holloway |date=2019-04-10 |year=2019 |orig-date=2019-04-10 |title=Written questions and answers - Written questions, answers and statements - UK Parliament |url=https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2019-04-10/243372#:~:text=Highways%20England%20entered%20into%20a,able%20to%20progress%20the%20sale |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250524133854/https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2019-04-10/243372 |archive-date=2025-05-24 |access-date=2019-04-10 |website=Written questions, answers and statements – UK Parliament |publisher=UK Parliament |page=1 |language=en |publication-place=London, SW1A 0AA, United Kingdom |publication-date=2019-04-10 |agency=Parliamentary Digital Service (PDS)}} The physical site continues to sit empty under BP’s ownership, with only the adjacent roads and parkland altered since the 2000s.

Most recently (2024–25) BP’s electric-vehicle charging division (bp pulse) and Marks & Spencer have proposed a new mixed service station concept. In August 2024 they revealed plans for a “flagship” service hub: a BP station with 6 islands and forecourt, 24 EV charging bays, an M&S Simply Food outlet and Wild Bean Café.{{Cite web |date=2025-03-04 |title='The area needs this, get it done' - Hundreds back plan to redevelop 'eyesore' A2 hotel |url=https://www.kentonline.co.uk/gravesend/news/the-area-needs-this-get-it-done-hundreds-back-plan-to-r-320882/#:~:text=24%20EV%20charging%20bays,%20a%20petrol%20filling%20station,%20an%20M&S%20Simply%20Food%20store%20and%20a%20Wild%20Bean%20Caf%C3%A9. |access-date=2025-05-22 |website=Kent Online |language=en}}{{Cite web |date=2024-08-22 |title=New BP garage and M&S planned for derelict hotel site off A2 |url=https://www.kentonline.co.uk/gravesend/news/new-bp-garage-and-m-s-planned-for-derelict-a2-eyesore-hotel-311713/#:~:text=The%20Tollgate%20Hotel,%20which%20is,of%20a%20new%20slip%20road |access-date=2025-05-22 |website=Kent Online |language=en}}{{Cite web |date=2025-05-22 |title=BP Pulse wants public's opinion on new site proposals in Kent {{!}} News {{!}} Forecourt Trader |url=https://forecourttrader.co.uk/latest-news/bp-pulse-wants-publics-opinion-on-new-site-proposals-in-kent/694697.article#:~:text=The%20scheme%20would%20include%2024%20ultra-fast%20EV%20charging%20bays%20with%20an%20ancillary%20petrol%20filling%20element.%20The%20proposal%20also%20includes%20an%20M&S%20Simply%20Food%20store%20and%20Wild%20Bean%20Caf%C3%A9. |access-date=2025-05-22 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250522214223/https://forecourttrader.co.uk/latest-news/bp-pulse-wants-publics-opinion-on-new-site-proposals-in-kent/694697.article#:~:text=The%20scheme%20would%20include%2024%20ultra-fast%20EV%20charging%20bays%20with%20an%20ancillary%20petrol%20filling%20element.%20The%20proposal%20also%20includes%20an%20M&S%20Simply%20Food%20store%20and%20Wild%20Bean%20Caf%C3%A9. |archive-date=22 May 2025 }} Public consultation showed substantial support: hundreds of local residents expressed backing for converting the “eyesore” site to new use. In early 2025 BP formally submitted a planning application to demolish all remaining hotel buildings and build the combined petrol/EV station with the M&S shop.{{Cite web |date=2025-03-04 |title='The area needs this, get it done' - Hundreds back plan to redevelop 'eyesore' A2 hotel |url=https://www.kentonline.co.uk/gravesend/news/the-area-needs-this-get-it-done-hundreds-back-plan-to-r-320882/#:~:text=After%20asking%20the%20public%20for,and%20a%20Wild%20Bean%20Caf%C3%A9 |access-date=2025-05-22 |website=Kent Online |language=en}} If approved, the redevelopment is expected to create about 30 jobs and attract more visitors to Gravesend. However, as of spring 2025 the decision is pending: National Highways has lodged a statutory objection concerning motorway access.{{Cite web |date=2025-03-04 |title='The area needs this, get it done' - Hundreds back plan to redevelop 'eyesore' A2 hotel |url=https://www.kentonline.co.uk/gravesend/news/the-area-needs-this-get-it-done-hundreds-back-plan-to-r-320882/#:~:text=However,%20a%20decision%20on%20the%20planning%20application%20for%20the%20former%20A2%20Tollgate%20Hotel%20in%20Gravesend%20has%20been%20delayed%20following%20an%20objection%20from%20National%20Highways. |access-date=2025-05-22 |website=Kent Online |language=en}}

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