‘Why did it become personal?’: furore over plans to expand Kent oyster shack
James Green’s oyster company owns a chunk of Whitstable’s shoreline but success has not brought affection from residents The clink of glasses and the lapping of the tide was punctuated by giggling toddlers and the slurp of oysters at tables populated by people gently sizzling on a baking day on the Kent seaside. But James Green, of the Whitstable Oyster Fishery Company, had the demeanour of a man who had found grit i
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- 16 Aug 2026, 12:00 UTC
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- Daniel Boffey in Whitstable
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- Kent
James Green’s oyster company owns a chunk of Whitstable’s shoreline but success has not brought affection from residents The clink of glasses and the lapping of the tide was punctuated by giggling toddlers and the slurp of oysters at tables populated by people gently sizzling on a baking day on the Kent seaside. But James Green, of the Whitstable Oyster Fishery Company, had the demeanour of a man who had found grit i
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‘Why did it become personal?’: furore over plans to expand Kent oyster shack
James Green’s oyster company owns a chunk of Whitstable’s shoreline but success has not brought affection from residents The clink of glasses and the lapping of the tide was punctuated by giggling toddlers and the slurp of oysters at tables populated by people gently sizzling on a baking day on the Kent seaside. But James Green, of the Whitstable Oyster Fishery Company, had the demeanour of a man who had found grit i
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