Comment

Representation ID: 1234

Received: 30/10/2023

Respondent: Railfuture Ltd

We endorse the approach in paragraphs 5.36-5.46. We note these sites comprise c.40% of the total potential housing capacity identified but are currently un-served by an increasingly well-used but, from December 1961, freight-only railway line. The award of £170m from the Housing Infrastructure Fund in November 2019, with £67m of that identified for upgrading the existing line for passenger services as far as a new station at Hoo St. Werburgh was, in our view and despite the abandonment of the project in July 2023, formal recognition of the strategic case for the additional public transport capacity mentioned after paragraph 5.11.