The building of the UK’s first coal-fired power station for nearly 30 years is likely to move a step closer as Medway Council discusses the plans.

E.ON UK wants to build two new cleaner coal units and demolish an existing power station at Kingsnorth, near Rochester, in Kent.

It says the new power station will be 20% cleaner - the equivalent of taking half a million cars off the road.

But objector Greenpeace says the power station is “dinosaur technology”.

The council will discuss the planning application, submitted last December, on Wednesday night.

It has received nearly 9,000 objections, more than 8,000 of them in the form of e-mails, postcards and letters in standard Greenpeace wording.

The council does not have the power to grant or reject planning permission but has been asked to give its views to the government, which will make the final decision.

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