Object

Representation ID: 4905

Received: 11/08/2025

Respondent: Kitesfield Estates Limited

Agent: Bloomfields Ltd

Legally compliant? Yes

Sound? Yes

Duty to co-operate? Yes

The policy fails to make the appropriate recognition of the challenges involved with developing brownfield sites which are often more expensive to deliver, for example due to issues such as contamination or demolition costs.
It is important that the requirements for affordable housing do not conflict with the Local Plan's ‘brownfield first’ approach.
Smaller sites in the high value areas should not considered as part of the wider Hoo Peninsula Strategic sites, this is particularly important if it border a strategic site or is in an area of an accumulation of smaller sites, or if the site is brownfield.