Supporting people to lead healthy lives and strengthening our communities

Comment

Representation ID: 710

Received: 26/10/2023

Respondent: Mx Onyx Rist

Public transportation via bus services near all developments including Medway Council placing bus stops outside all developments.

WIFI needs to be hurried up. At the Otterham Quay development there is still no Openreach connection.

Comment

Representation ID: 722

Received: 26/10/2023

Respondent: Mr Alan Stockey

Healthy active travel and good mental health need places or rest and relaxation and Road capacity to support cycling and walking. I see nothing in this plan that gives any priority to active travel (over more cars) and priority of housing over green space. If our river is to be a source of rest and relaxation there needs to be active intervention to stop Southern Water continuing to pump effluent into it. There also needs to be increased access to mental health support, as the destruction of our local heritage in Rainham will bring anxiety and depression.

Comment

Representation ID: 733

Received: 26/10/2023

Respondent: Mr Dan Dickinson

Until there are sufficient police patrols and intelligence-led policing, by foot, not from a crawling patrol car twice a day up and down the pedestrianised high street I do not feel safe using my bike to commute to work or the train station. I accept there is a utopian view we should all be on bicycles but there frankly isn't the road space to use one safely, there is not safe provision to leave a bike of any value and the public transport is not there and what is, is far too expensive

Comment

Representation ID: 755

Received: 26/10/2023

Respondent: Denise Harris

The best way to support the people of Medway in leading healthy lives is ensuring they have access to healthcare services. There are not enough GPs in the area to accommodate the population, and we are desperately in need of another hospital - Medway Maritime hospital is on its knees and cannot cope with the current level of demand let alone when you add an extra 29000 houses into the equation.

Comment

Representation ID: 760

Received: 26/10/2023

Respondent: Miss Maria Lawrence

Why not start promoting healthy eating now by rejecting unhealthy kebab and takeaways that are appearing?

Comment

Representation ID: 773

Received: 27/10/2023

Respondent: Mr Cllr George Perfect

Continue to develop a range of typologies of housing for the diversity of our communities.

Comment

Representation ID: 799

Received: 27/10/2023

Respondent: AC Goatham & Son

Agent: Bloomfields Ltd

There is an omission in how the objective is drafted.
Second bullet point- 'promoting healthy eating and physical exercise', is supported. However, acknowledgment should be given to supporting the industries/businesses that are delivering the healthy produce, especially, as is the case with AC Goatham and Son, where they are growing fruit and managing the landscape

Third bullet point- proposes to strengthen the role of Medway's urban, neighbourhood and village centres…” This position is supported, but ‘urban and rural extensions’ should also be included in this objective, especially, as they are included within the proposed spatial strategy for delivering growth.

Comment

Representation ID: 826

Received: 27/10/2023

Respondent: NHS Kent and Medway

NHS Kent and Medway Integrated Care Board (“The ICB”) supports the focus in the consultation around supporting people to lead healthier lives. We also support that provision is made through the Local Plan for investment in expansion/ upgrade of existing healthcare facilities and additional healthcare facilities to support a growing and changing population.
The ICB and Medway and Swale Health and Care Partnership will work with Medway Council through the Local Plan development process to inform and secure future healthcare infrastructure plans and requirements as part of the healthcare infrastructure estates strategy for Medway.

Comment

Representation ID: 830

Received: 27/10/2023

Respondent: Mr Brian McDonald

Please respect and protect the AONB & Green Belt area around Upper Bush. The recent Winery fiasco with the head of planning and subsequent rejection by planning inspectorate would suggest MC should avoid development on this area of land. The community have spoken, the PI supports the community but MC appears not to. Get a grip.

Comment

Representation ID: 842

Received: 28/10/2023

Respondent: Mr Keith Harrison

I agree with the these suggestions but suggest that the residences should be carbon neutral and built within compact areas rather than continuing as part of urban sprawl using valuable arable land.

Comment

Representation ID: 857

Received: 28/10/2023

Respondent: Mr Clive Chester

Where are the new Health care facilities for the peninsula ?

Comment

Representation ID: 860

Received: 28/10/2023

Respondent: Lorraine May

The last point is a bit odd with reference to the 'main Town' ...which one would this be? If the idea is , say Rochester would be designated as the 'main Town', then this idea should probably be mentioned earlier in the plan. Or if you mean that Strood, Rochester, Chatham, Gillingham would each be a 'main Town' (perhaps that's what's meant by 'in the context of the distinct towns..' ) then perhaps this should be made clearer.

Comment

Representation ID: 915

Received: 28/10/2023

Respondent: Mr Keith Clear

Better and genuine support for disadvantaged residents including those with disabilities, the elderly and poor social backgrounds. Improve their physical, mental and social outcomes. Supporting local community organisations that improve our citizens health and wellbeing. Encourage local businesses to be involved. Realistic properly paid employment. Value everyone in the community equally. Make consultations genuinely consultations. Develop effective partnerships to improve services to the most vulnerable. Restrict the number of fast food shops opening. Too many in Luton Road.

Comment

Representation ID: 947

Received: 29/10/2023

Respondent: Mr Norman Hogben

Medways high streets are dying and run down. The out of town shopping centers have killed them off. Parking charges are also adding to there demise. The traffic problems in the towns also put people off of going into the high streets. Why go there when you can go to out of town centers for all the bigger stores.

Comment

Representation ID: 957

Received: 29/10/2023

Respondent: Mrs Alison Wells

Supporting people to lead more healthy lifestyles is very important. Local health services are inadequate.

Comment

Representation ID: 974

Received: 29/10/2023

Respondent: Mr Leslie Brown

This is more social services than planning. The Building regulations cover these aspects such as EV's, Air quality and ventilation/moisture. However local parade of shops need more diversification as per English Heritages report of a few years ago.
Shopping Parades Introductions to Heritage Assets (April 2016). The recent mass building of flats in Chatham and Rochester plus Command House, removes any amenity values and health benefits. This should be dealt with in more socially acceptable community hubs. They attract Londoners who already live in flats. Possibly more so than local families in rent.

Comment

Representation ID: 1007

Received: 29/10/2023

Respondent: Mrs Sue Self

Medway hospital cannot cope with the demand it currently has, with A&E patients regularly on trolleys in the corridor. I’m totally against this plan for more houses unless a new hospital is built. We cannot cope with the current demand !
Additionally our schools are over subscribed so how will they cope with this further influx ! It’s not been thought through at all

Comment

Representation ID: 1010

Received: 29/10/2023

Respondent: Carl Kroon

Local citizens cannot afford to live in the area.
Council is culpable on the reinstatement of slums, with a local MP calling it entrepreneurial.
New development of 1980's housing with the added bonus of design and build faults.
Paragraph 2, you know the answers but deliberately do nothing.

Comment

Representation ID: 1018

Received: 30/10/2023

Respondent: Mr Graham Crawford

So far the majority of houses built or being built are too expensive for normal working people none as far as I can see cater for disabled. This statement on housing is pie in the sky,a pipe dream.

Comment

Representation ID: 1028

Received: 30/10/2023

Respondent: Blueberry Homes

Agent: Savills

Our client supports the objective to provide for the housing needs of Medway’s communities. Although it is acknowledged that the level of detail established at this stage in the Local Plan preparation is limited and will be progressed in further detail as the Plan progresses. The sizes, types and tenures of the proposed housing at the Site will be informed by the housing need demonstrated within the Local Plan.

References to ‘the Site’ mean Site Ref: GN6 (Gillingham No.3 and 4) identified in the Land Availability Assessment 2023 and as detailed in our letter of representations submitted to the Council.

Comment

Representation ID: 1029

Received: 30/10/2023

Respondent: Blueberry Homes

Agent: Savills

Our client supports the objective to secure a range of accessible services for local communities close to where they live. This objective provides for sustainable communities with sufficient access to services, in accordance with the NPPF.

References to ‘the Site’ mean Site Ref: GN6 (Gillingham No.3 and 4) identified in the Land Availability Assessment 2023 and as fully detailed in our letter of representations submitted to the Council.

Comment

Representation ID: 1032

Received: 30/10/2023

Respondent: Mrs Maureen Crombie

* less flats, more bungalows, houses.
* Sufficient parking with new builds
* When developers commit to providing facilities, they should be held to this. A financial donation is simply not enough. It's not enough either to promise a shop or a play area. Its a cop-out!
*A timescale for completion or penalties applied. developments in my area that are still unfinished after SEVERAL years include, The Victoria Cross, Lordwood Lane, 'Luxury homes', Upper Luton Road, Southern Water land, Capstone Road, Flats at Heron Way Princes Avenue junction, Kestrel Shops area, Lordswood. Eyesores and anti social behaviour magnets.

Comment

Representation ID: 1046

Received: 30/10/2023

Respondent: Kitesfield Estates Limited

Agent: Bloomfields Ltd

Section 8 of the NPPF provides guidance on ‘Promoting Healthy and Safe Communities’. The proposed objective in the Medway Local Plan actively meets this objective and is therefore supported. But, respectfully it is considered that there is an omission in how the objective is drafted.The intentions of the third bullet point, proposes to strengthen the role of Medway's urban, neighbourhood and village centres…” This position is supported, but it is considered that ‘rural extensions’ should also be included in this objective, especially, as the rural development sites are included within the proposed spatial strategy for delivering growth.

Comment

Representation ID: 1060

Received: 30/10/2023

Respondent: Medway Green Party

Medway needs carbon negative dwellings with zero energy costs for its residents. Medway needs to stop suburban sprawl and create compact urban developments. Less carbon, more green spaces, pedestrian focus and thriving urban neighbourhood communities, saving money on fuel for heating and travelling

Comment

Representation ID: 1123

Received: 30/10/2023

Respondent: Medway Council Climate Response Team

Driving reductions in the carbon impacts of new development needs expanding to address,
-minimum requirements inline with the energy hierarchy,
-taking a 'fabric first' approach,
-renewable energy 'designed in' to social and affordable housing to help level up access to cheaper energy
-prioritising energy security to help reduce fuel poverty.
Expand on opportunities for retrofitting properties, to ensure property owners feel sufficiently supported to make them more energy efficient and less vulnerable to the impacts of climate change.
Include reference to,
-places to promote social interaction
-empowering communities to have involvement in decision making and to make sustainable choices.

Comment

Representation ID: 1125

Received: 30/10/2023

Respondent: St John's College

Agent: Savills (UK) Ltd

This strategic objective includes the need ‘to provide for high quality energy efficient homes that meet the housing needs of Medway's communities’. It should be noted that this is somewhat premature and potentially misleading as currently written. Medway falls within the same Housing Market Area as Gravesham and it is understood that Medway may take on some of Gravesham’s need. That being the case, the objective would be clearer if it read as follows ‘to provide for high quality energy efficient homes that meet the housing needs of the community’.

Comment

Representation ID: 1141

Received: 30/10/2023

Respondent: Mrs Lauren Heritage-Winter

So you want to increase a green and healthy lifestyle for locals and encourage spending more time in nature by.....building on it?

Crime in the area is increasing all the time with less investment into the police, how do you suppose adding more people, especially demographics that statistically are involved in higher crime rates will help this?

Comment

Representation ID: 1152

Received: 30/10/2023

Respondent: Mr Stuart Tranter

The amount of housing in each category needs to be calculated ONLY on the demonstrable needs of all Medway people, NOT using the standard methodology which results in a vast over development of Medway.

Comment

Representation ID: 1176

Received: 30/10/2023

Respondent: Redrow Homes Limited

Agent: Ms Emily Brosnan

The site, at High Halstow, would provide a logical and sustainable extension to the east of the village and provide many opportunities for wider integration with nearby services and facilities to support healthy and active living and positive well-being for existing and new residents.

Comment

Representation ID: 1188

Received: 30/10/2023

Respondent: Mr Stephen Hesketh

Local and central government talk about helping people to lead healthy lives, but this is not supported by their actions. Policies at Council Leisure Centres have changed such that costs have increased and opening times reduced. The provision of sport across the area is poor and this is reflected by the health of the community. Obesity is a massive and 'increasing' issue with the result that there are massive costs on local and central heath provision.
Deangate Ridge needs to be developed with provision for walking and trail running.