5.1

Comment

Representation ID: 369

Received: 01/10/2023

Respondent: Mr John Day

When building homes why not include homes for nature as well. Bird boxes, nesting bricks, bat boxes.

Comment

Representation ID: 416

Received: 06/10/2023

Respondent: Mrs Jill Norton

Countryside and agricultural land should be protected and never built on. The environmental damage it cases is criminal.

Comment

Representation ID: 442

Received: 07/10/2023

Respondent: Mr Michael O'Hanlon

I am a resident of High Halstow. I wish to make it absolutely clear that the parcels of land, both to the east and to the south of High Halstow, shown for possible development, are entirely unsuitable. The transport and environmental infrastructure cannot sustain further development beyond it's present level. The HiF money that has now been withdrawn makes any further development of the Hoo Peninsula a non-starter. As stated the environmental impact and well as the air quality would have a detrimental affect on the quality of life for all! Our fields are for growing food, not concreting over.

Comment

Representation ID: 443

Received: 07/10/2023

Respondent: Mrs Sandra O'Hanlon

I am a resident of High Halstow. I wish to make it absolutely clear that the parcels of land, both to the east and to the south of High Halstow, shown for possible development, are entirely unsuitable. The transport and environmental infrastructure cannot sustain further development beyond it's present level. The HiF money that has now been withdrawn makes any further development of the Hoo Peninsula a non-starter. As stated the environmental impact and well as the air quality would have a detrimental affect on the quality of life for all! Our fields are for growing food, not concreting over.

Comment

Representation ID: 487

Received: 18/10/2023

Respondent: Mr Glen Cook

This is a vital document and must be publicised widely and as promptly as possible. The destruction of our greenspaces is a major concern for residents who already have very limited local access.

Comment

Representation ID: 514

Received: 20/10/2023

Respondent: Mr Ben Sawyer

Chatham Docks must remain protected under this map and not be designated for development for housing.

Comment

Representation ID: 614

Received: 25/10/2023

Respondent: Mrs Daniela Baylis

Very concerned to see how much building is planned on greenfield sites including supposedly protected metropolitan greenbelt.

Comment

Representation ID: 663

Received: 26/10/2023

Respondent: Mrs Nicola Griesemann

You need to stop using good agricultural land for building, and stop building out in the villages on the Hoo Peninsula where the road infrastructure just isn't there to support the number of cars. There's basically 1 road in and out and it isn't enough. Work needs to be completed on improving the number of roads, schools, dr. surgeries, etc, first before you build even more houses.

Comment

Representation ID: 702

Received: 26/10/2023

Respondent: Mr Kevin Shipp

It is essential that the council does not change the land use designation of Chatham docks, in line with previous plans to ensure the businesses within Chatham docks can stay and the area can benefit from jobs and the local turnover of 250million pounds.

Comment

Representation ID: 711

Received: 26/10/2023

Respondent: Mx Onyx Rist

We need far more affordable housing.

Comment

Representation ID: 725

Received: 26/10/2023

Respondent: Mr Alan Stockey

How will policies be sensitive to local communities, one size does not fit all across Medway. Local neighbourhood policy workshops should be encouraged as a means of engagement, citizens assembly’s like the one in Wandsworth on air quality. People aren’t engaging because they aren’t interested, it’s because they don’t believe their voices will be listened to. This has to be overcome creatively.

Comment

Representation ID: 736

Received: 26/10/2023

Respondent: Mr Dan Dickinson

I take this with a total pinch of salt as proven by the plan to concrete the Capstone Valley. Words at this point mean nothing, actions do and so far the action has been to show an intent to pander to property developers interested in the biggest margin they can squeeze from the land footprint.

Comment

Representation ID: 845

Received: 28/10/2023

Respondent: Mr Keith Harrison

Please be careful to avoid building on valuable agricultural land, and land used for important environmental reasons.

Comment

Representation ID: 917

Received: 28/10/2023

Respondent: Mr Keith Clear

Protect our green belt. Set a more sympathetic housing target. Genuinely affordable smaller family homes not luxury 4 bedroom homes.

Comment

Representation ID: 936

Received: 29/10/2023

Respondent: Ward Councillor Peninsula ward

The whole consultation documents are lacking in detail, its unclear how firstly your vision and then the spatial strategy can coexist, a vision dealing with climate change protecting the countryside and coastline taking note of the estuaries as valued habitats enhancing its distinct character. Whilst your spatial strategy seeks to completely destroy the rural environment of the Hoo Peninsula, the loss of agricultural land, the destruction of its history heritage and landscapes.
This head long rush to urbanise rural communities to take away there distinctive identities contrary to NPPF 2023 chapter five and chapter 11 paragraph 120

Comment

Representation ID: 949

Received: 29/10/2023

Respondent: Mr Norman Hogben

all rural areas should be protected for the benefits they bring to the communities that live there. Our birds and bees, plants and butterflies are all impacted with every new development. Wildlife has been depleted in the UK and more needs to be done to halt this decline

Comment

Representation ID: 960

Received: 29/10/2023

Respondent: Mrs Alison Wells

How land is allocated can be extremely upsetting for local communities if quality of life is downgraded by overdevelopment or housing placed to destroy valued views. New housing developments feel soulless and not integrated leaving people isolated. Housing should not be approved on all grades of agricultural land which should be used to feed the population.

Comment

Representation ID: 977

Received: 29/10/2023

Respondent: Mr Leslie Brown

All new Local Plan s by LPA's have digital policy maps. It should also include Footpath mapping listing their designation. The lack of new cycle linkages, bus lanes etc should also be included in the rout maps.

Comment

Representation ID: 1020

Received: 30/10/2023

Respondent: Mr Graham Crawford

I note that lower Rainham road has a lot of land to the south is allocated for housing ridiculous this is very narrow road that already has a traffic light controlled pinch point no pavements or street lighting to speak of and more importantly no public transport you’re away with the fairies if you think that !

Comment

Representation ID: 1042

Received: 30/10/2023

Respondent: Mrs Maureen Crombie

I agree. And the whole proposed plan must be widely advertised (not just on-line) to allow local people a say.

Comment

Representation ID: 1064

Received: 30/10/2023

Respondent: Medway Green Party

Far more land requires protection for environmental and agricultural reasons than the current exaggerated housing allocations allow for. If the current plans for developing Medway's precious green areas go ahead, Medway Council will have failed in its role as custodian of several irreplaceable national treasures.

Comment

Representation ID: 1108

Received: 30/10/2023

Respondent: Brunel Planning

COMMENT ON PARA. 5.1

It is imperative that Chatham Docks continues to be protected within the new Local Plan as a site protected for port-related development including industrial, business or storage and distribution development both as a designation on the Proposals Map and in Policies within the new Local Plan.

ArcelorMittal objects to Chatham Docks' designation as an urban regeneration site for housing development.

Comment

Representation ID: 1172

Received: 30/10/2023

Respondent: Redrow Homes Limited

Agent: Ms Emily Brosnan

We support the development of a Policies Map. We recommend the policies map includes site allocations which should be set out within the Regulation 19 Local Plan document. The Council should publish the evidence to support the growth strategy site allocations.

Comment

Representation ID: 1193

Received: 30/10/2023

Respondent: Mr Stephen Hesketh

I presume the local plan will only be a consultative document. It is far easier to comment on a proposed plan. Not sure what I am supposed to say here!

Comment

Representation ID: 1207

Received: 30/10/2023

Respondent: Mr James Wood

The green spaces that separate urban areas and the villages should be respected, so that the villages do not merge into the urban areas or each other and cause a list of indentity

Comment

Representation ID: 1227

Received: 30/10/2023

Respondent: Ms Jane Cook

How land is allocated for development such as housing, employment and importantly for improved infrastructure, basic facilities such as doctors, dentists and schools. A new hospital is desperately needed, how will this be provided for. Also it should include where land is protected such as heritage designations and conservation areas and green buffers.

Comment

Representation ID: 1252

Received: 30/10/2023

Respondent: Mrs Sue Harwood

Valuable and important landscapes which are vital for nature, such as the Capstone Valley, should be protected.

Comment

Representation ID: 1268

Received: 30/10/2023

Respondent: Mr j Broadsword

With the loss of the HIF and cancellation of the proposed train station on the Hoo Peninsula the infrastructure will never be in place or sufficient for the huge increase in population in the area that you propose. Even with some of the road improvements previously mentioned the road network would not cope with 40-50 thousand more private vehicles.

Deangate Country Park must be kept as a country park and not built over.

Comment

Representation ID: 1283

Received: 30/10/2023

Respondent: David Hopkins

Policies need to include easy access to green spaces, allotments for new housing developments and good walking, cycling and public transport links.

Comment

Representation ID: 1284

Received: 30/10/2023

Respondent: Mrs Helen Hopkins

I believe everyone should have access to a green space close to where they live. Allotments are important, there are not enough in Medway.