5.6

Comment

Representation ID: 419

Received: 06/10/2023

Respondent: Mrs Jill Norton

It is clear that all the proposed developments on the Hoo Peninsula e.g. 800 homes in High Halstow between Britannia and Christmas Lane; the land between Dux Court and A228 should be firmly rejected. They are not sustainable and the environmental damage will be immense.

Comment

Representation ID: 471

Received: 17/10/2023

Respondent: Sports England

It is important to have a robust up to date evidence base for outdoor and indoor as per paragraph 99 of the National Planning Policy Framework.

Medway has both a playing pitch strategy (PPS) (2019) and Sports Facility Strategy and Action Plan (SFS) (2017).

The PPS is coming to the end of its life and would not be considered robust next year. The SFS is considered to be out of date.

Sport advises that both these documents should be recommissioned in order to have a robust evidence base.

Comment

Representation ID: 616

Received: 25/10/2023

Respondent: Mrs Daniela Baylis

No green belt sites should be considered. These are meant to be protected open spaces.

Comment

Representation ID: 665

Received: 26/10/2023

Respondent: Mrs Nicola Griesemann

It's an absolute farce that Medway haven't got a local plan already in place and that as it stands builder's can pretty much build anywhere they want. This has led to many unsuitable housing developments going ahead and this must be stopped.

Comment

Representation ID: 676

Received: 26/10/2023

Respondent: Ms Catriona Jamieson

It will be good to see what Southern Water report as viability in terms of water supply. Any figures from Southern Water should be looked at carefully as we know there are water shortages and if there is not enough water to service new houses then viability needs to be seriously considered.

Comment

Representation ID: 728

Received: 26/10/2023

Respondent: Mr Alan Stockey

Given the stater priority on health and air quality can it not already be seen that these indicators will already get worse. All local authorities have a legal responsibility for these yet all are forgotten in the zest to build over every patch of available land. Let see some illustration of how those obligations are being delivered in parallel.

Comment

Representation ID: 850

Received: 28/10/2023

Respondent: Mr Keith Harrison

Once again, it is better to avoid using the Standard Method in assessing needs which will save Medway Council time and money.

Comment

Representation ID: 983

Received: 29/10/2023

Respondent: Mr Leslie Brown

New housing sites will be assessed by promoters. However a review of unoccupied houses, plus a review of shopping parades is also required. A retail study Plan wide is required and also to include the old Tesco Site, Bingo site on the eastern side of Chatham. Most shoppers go to Tesco's or the Sava Centre. They are clean, dynamic, architecturally good, parking free, with bus services.

Comment

Representation ID: 1069

Received: 30/10/2023

Respondent: Medway Green Party

The Council is doing six times more work than is necessary due to inflated Standard Method housing needs assessments. This is diverting resources away from much needed Council services and wasting rate payers’ money.

Comment

Representation ID: 1128

Received: 30/10/2023

Respondent: Medway Council Climate Response Team

The testing criteria, for the 4 location categories, should also include a risk assessment of current and future climate change impacts such as flooding

Comment

Representation ID: 1130

Received: 30/10/2023

Respondent: Medway Council Climate Response Team

New item for inclusion under Development Needs – it is essential that future energy requirements based on the development needs of Medway will be determined and how this will support a clear Local Area Energy Plan, including large scale and local energy schemes.
The testing criteria, for the 4 location categories, should also include a risk assessment of current and future climate change impacts such as flooding,

Comment

Representation ID: 1164

Received: 30/10/2023

Respondent: Mr Stuart Tranter

Chatham Docks should not be included for residential development because it will take away viable and unique maritime employment land, and would be very costly to develop for residential use. There is no railway station, and it would add further pressure to town center roads.

Comment

Representation ID: 1199

Received: 30/10/2023

Respondent: Mr Stephen Hesketh

I'm glad that the council will be demonstrating that the growth strategy will be tested against a range of criteria. I find it hard to believe that this was carried out previously.

Comment

Representation ID: 1224

Received: 30/10/2023

Respondent: Railfuture Ltd

We welcome the explicit reference to transport impacts as a test criterion.

Comment

Representation ID: 1247

Received: 30/10/2023

Respondent: Mr Andrew Warrilow

Medway Residents regularly face water restrictions as there is not enough resource within the system, and waste water processing has been widely publicised as being at capacity, with regular discharges of untreated sewage. Utility infrastructure must be viewed as a major constraint- any new development should be directly linked to new investment and facilities provided by the water companies - without this, any major development should not proceed.

Comment

Representation ID: 1265

Received: 30/10/2023

Respondent: Mr j Broadsword

Existing brownfield sites and land not impacting the character of rural villages must be used. The loss of Greenfield sites will have a detrimental impact on existing residents and their mental health and wellbeing as well as wildlife.

Comment

Representation ID: 1293

Received: 30/10/2023

Respondent: Mrs Helen Hopkins

Risk of flooding should be considered.

Comment

Representation ID: 1294

Received: 30/10/2023

Respondent: David Hopkins

Agreed. Sustainable transport is particularly important.

Comment

Representation ID: 1335

Received: 31/10/2023

Respondent: Eutopia Homes

We note that Stage 2 of the LAA is underway and involves estimating each development potential of identified sites. It is critical that this should not be an exercise of simply applying an arbitrary / capped density per hectare thresholds for relevant sites. Such an approach would fail to optimise the use of sites which can evidently deliver high density development in accessible locations.

Comment

Representation ID: 1385

Received: 31/10/2023

Respondent: Barratt David Wilson Homes

Agent: Iceni Projects

It is therefore recommended that the Council consider Green Belt release as part of their spatial strategy and in particular, allocate Land to the north of Rede Court, Strood

Comment

Representation ID: 1455

Received: 31/10/2023

Respondent: Mr Alexander Cameron

Will this evidence base be available for review - when?

If the government model is flawed ( as it seems to be) why use it?

Comment

Representation ID: 1458

Received: 31/10/2023

Respondent: Mrs Marilyn Stone

Time, money is being spent on a need that doesn't exist taking away resources from other services and wasting tax payers' money

Comment

Representation ID: 1513

Received: 31/10/2023

Respondent: Richborough

Agent: Pinnacle Planning

It will be critical for supporting evidence base documents to interrogate the viability of delivering sites at the density suggested and to thoroughly test the estimated delivery timescales of sites within the trajectory based on the level of infrastructure provision required. The estimated delivery timescales for emerging allocations will need to factor in the speed with which strategic infrastructure works can be completed.
The viability of proposed allocations should also comprehensively address Medway's response to the loss of HIF funding for infrastructure improvement schemes, originally awarded to help deliver housing on the Hoo peninsular.

Comment

Representation ID: 1648

Received: 31/10/2023

Respondent: Mr Roger Brown

This section is only of any use if a scientific definition of sustainability is at the heart of the plan. There is no such thing as economic sustainability, only environmental degradation. Global heating was not created by ecological sustainability because there wasn’t any!

Comment

Representation ID: 1713

Received: 31/10/2023

Respondent: Mr Rupert Turpin

It would be vital to see transport sustainability assessment for the whole of Medway, not just the peninsula, and good to see the council abandon its plan to cram all development into the peninsula. It would also be good to see real protections on the ecology, butressed by the evidence so far hidden from us of the ecological sustainability assessments. Without new road infrastructure the officers stated clearly that only 1000 extra homes could be built on the peninsula, and we are some way along that road already, so we vitally need to know how infrastructure spending will precede development