Comment

Representation ID: 4118

Received: 08/09/2024

Respondent: Miss Rosamund Beattie

"Development that impacts a heritage asset, or its setting, should achieve a high quality of design which will conserve or enhance the asset's significance and setting". That phrase is simply a contradiction. If you are destroying a heritage asset or view, no modern design will make up for that.
Secondly, I cannot recall one high quality modern design that I have ever seen in Rochester as compared to the historic buildings therein.
Medway should have a local heritage list, although as Historic England already has one, what purpose would it serve? Planning consent more difficult to obtain? Then yes.