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Representation ID: 5006

Received: 11/08/2025

Respondent: Mr Simon Pickard

Legally compliant? No

Sound? No

Duty to co-operate? No

The development area identified in the proposed plan as SA6 does not meet NPPF criteria for re-designation to grey belt land. This is because Medway Council have published no justification for why stated positions in previous adopted plan/published studies no longer apply.
Section 9.1.1 of proposed plan states "Crucially, new development must not reinforce historic travel patterns or car dependency"- how this will be achieved is not stated wrt site SA6. Medway’s recent LCWIP (March 2025), highlights other key routes, but excludes links from this site to Strood. No public transport infrastructure improvement is proposed.