The station provides further cover for the more larger and built up areas, namely Strood, Larkfield, and sometimes the towns of Medway and Maidstone.

The general risks in our grounds are a petrol station situated one side of the village, between Halling and Snodland, and one not so many metres from our station. There is also a large paper mill in Snodland that is attended to. Situated both ends of our village are Strood and Larkfield fire stations, many a night and day have we often been playing snooker or darts while on standby.

Being in a village there are many rural areas where many fires occur in woodlands, fields and wastelands most are caused by deliberate and some by the careless. There is also a river running parallel with  Halling (the river Medway), try pulling a stuck horse or cow out of the mud: it's not easy I can tell you.

The latest and most adventurous development is the major project undertaken by a new Rail-link that runs across the river Medway on the out skirts of our fire ground, together with a new road bridge, making the M2 wider for the ever increasing traffic. There is also at the time of writing this, plans to build a major complex of houses etc, on the old cement works land on the south side of Ladds lane, and on the right side a new cement works. And within the next 10 years if all goes well, there are plans to build a complex of several hundred houses and village amenities across the river near a small village called Wouldham. About a mile and a half or so from our station towards Snodland will be another new bridge to reach this new complex area, this should increase our station ground.

There are now plans for the next 43 weeks for major road works just out of our village on the A228 dual carriage by-pass for a new roundabout and a tunnel, when these are completed hopefully we may have access to across the river to widen our ground. more info as and when acquired.                14-01-05       At the time of writing this, the works are already well under well, the A228 is now down to one lane, and they have started the tunnel already.