Chapter 6 – Housing – sets

Object

Representation ID: 4337

Received: 01/07/2025

Respondent: Mr Alastair Blair

Legally compliant? No

Sound? No

Duty to co-operate? No

The proposals for housing ignores the need for better infrastructure. Developers positively shy away from infrastructure improvements because it costs them money. There is too much reliance on existing roads with mythical assessments on volumes.

The expansive development of Lidsing, Gibraltar Farm Mil Fields and East Hill has no real coordinated plan and the use of existing roads will only lead to huge congestion.

Object

Representation ID: 4344

Received: 06/07/2025

Respondent: Mr Stuart Hofford

Legally compliant? No

Sound? No

Duty to co-operate? Yes

The current plan, notwithstanding the previous objections, still envisages the destruction of irreplaceable green belt and prime agricultural land for the development of housing. This housing is not beneficial to existing communities and often is used by other agents to relocate non resident individuals out of their current locations and provides relatively little benefit to Medway residents.

Furthermore, the infrastructure and health and schooling facilities in Medway are already struggling to cope with current demand and traffic levels.

Object

Representation ID: 4759

Received: 10/08/2025

Respondent: Mr Robert Bursey

Legally compliant? Yes

Sound? No

Duty to co-operate? No

No general Article 4 Direction exists to allow proper public consultation, objections by local residents and permitting councillors to vote on an application in areas such as applications for Lawful Development Certificates. A general Article 4 Direction would remove this loophole and allow the Council's own Planning Policies to be used as grounds for refusal. This protection is in place in many other local authority areas but not in Medway and allows unscrupulous developers and others to take advantage to the detriment of Medway's tax paying residents.

Support

Representation ID: 5001

Received: 11/08/2025

Respondent: Mrs Jill Peet

Fully support the approach set out