5.31

Comment

Representation ID: 330

Received: 18/09/2023

Respondent: Mr Robert Drury

The dream of the 15 minute neighbourhood is just that, a dream. How is this possible within a town filled with Victorian streets, 1950s estates, and badly planned industrial areas. The aim shouldn't be to bring more people into the densely populated areas, but to provide opportunities outside of these areas, in new communities that can be self-supporting. Only in new communities can you begin to develop the 15 minute neighbourhood. And it doesn't even need to be limited to 15 minutes. It should be less.

Comment

Representation ID: 386

Received: 02/10/2023

Respondent: Mr Nicholas Dowling

We support this policy aspiration

Comment

Representation ID: 428

Received: 06/10/2023

Respondent: Mrs Jill Norton

You need to actively engage other public sector services such as health and education for this concept to be truly effective. Based on the demands with these services that is extremely challenging and probably undeliverable especially in the short term

Comment

Representation ID: 472

Received: 17/10/2023

Respondent: Sports England

It is important to ensure there is a suitable formal informal sporting infrastructure available to support the ’15 minute’ neighbourhood communites This will in part be driven from the evidence base provided by playing pitch and sports facility strategies.

Comment

Representation ID: 627

Received: 25/10/2023

Respondent: Mrs Daniela Baylis

Fully support these aims. all development should try to be sustainable in travel terms.

Comment

Representation ID: 704

Received: 26/10/2023

Respondent: Mr Kevin Shipp

These areas do not have the infrastructure to facilitate the amount of new proposed homes, including but not limited to the road network, doctors, schools, dentists.

Comment

Representation ID: 792

Received: 27/10/2023

Respondent: AC Goatham & Son

Agent: Bloomfields Ltd

We also support paragraph 5.31 which acknowledges that large sites on the periphery of the towns would provide opportunities to enhance sustainable travel, local services and work spaces near to people’s homes. With the opportunity to provide a development
that would meet the principles of the ‘15 minute neighbourhood’.

As the promoters of the Bloors Farm development site, there is a clear and defined opportunity to deliver a housing development that will improve sustainable travel, including pedestrian connections, and reducing the over reliance on the car.

Comment

Representation ID: 882

Received: 28/10/2023

Respondent: Mr Keith Harrison

But there is a need to make sure of the real needs of residents, both present and future.

Comment

Representation ID: 1059

Received: 30/10/2023

Respondent: Mrs Maureen Crombie

Again, the 15 minute neighbourhood is heavily dependant on a superb public transport network. You are putting the cart before the horse if you build the residencies on the promise of walks, bikes and buses. Can you not see that the electric car is coming? The proposed plan should foster the idea that people want independence and space and not to be confined to a 15 minute zone?
Squashing as many properties as possible into a given area then telling the inhabitants to walk or bus to get around is a pipe dream.

Comment

Representation ID: 1095

Received: 30/10/2023

Respondent: Medway Green Party

There is always something seductive about being involved in large developments, shaping and improving the future while turning a blind eye to the real needs of residents, both present and future.

Comment

Representation ID: 1134

Received: 30/10/2023

Respondent: Medway Council Climate Response Team

We welcome the inclusion of the concept of 15-minute neighbourhoods

Comment

Representation ID: 1184

Received: 30/10/2023

Respondent: Mr Alastair Blair

We have seen the la k of improvement around proposed developments. Poor road infrastructure improvements that do not ask any difference to existing roads that are already congested. Similarly there is never contribution to medical, especially hospital and General Practice facilities. All of the Capstone valley in the suburban classification are on country lanes that would require extensive improvement resulting in more pollution and removal of the green environment. Please do not include areas of Capstone and Darland valleys

Comment

Representation ID: 1215

Received: 30/10/2023

Respondent: Mr Andrew Warrilow

Developments within the UK where vehicle access has been severely restricted - LTNs - have been show to have had a detrimental effect on local people - this is well documented. Areas directly outside the LTN suffer increased congestion and pollution, whilst any business within the LTN struggles to survive due to a lack of customer access. The sentiment is well meaning but to follow this failed model would be foolish, and to the detriment of the residents in that area.

Comment

Representation ID: 1248

Received: 30/10/2023

Respondent: Ms Jane Cook

I think it's unrealistic to assume inappropriate developments of this scale, particularly in Rainham will provide opportunities for sustainable travel. It's clearly evident that the road network in Rainham is not coping with the strain of existing excessive housing building in the area. Further expansion would create stand still traffic along the lower road and A2. So far, developments in Rainham have not created any new services such as much needed doctors & dentists.

Comment

Representation ID: 1499

Received: 31/10/2023

Respondent: Richborough

Agent: Pinnacle Planning

Richborough supports the point that suburban residential development can provide opportunities to enhance sustainable travel options as well as provide for local services. Such development can viably sustain and justify financial contributions which significantly enhance walking and cycling connections to major services and/or public transport options. This could include improvements to be identified in the Local Cycling and Walking Infrastructure Plan.

Comment

Representation ID: 1557

Received: 31/10/2023

Respondent: Mrs Marilyn Stone

The concept of a 15 minute neighbourhood has merit but shouldn't be a spur to unnecessary and ever expanding development

Comment

Representation ID: 1606

Received: 31/10/2023

Respondent: Mr Martin Hardy

The geography of the area to the south comprising Darland and Capstone Valleys is not compatible with cycling or walking to employment areas (eg. Gillingham business park, Rochester airport park) because of the gradients and hazardous roads due to density of traffic. Building more houses will not change the gradients of the hills and there will continue to be a reliance on cars. Of course that results in greater congestion and reduction in air quality.

Comment

Representation ID: 1699

Received: 31/10/2023

Respondent: Mr Fred Skipsey

I don’t think the developers’ plans show any evidence of the possibility of creating such a community. Where will people walk and cycle if Star Lane becomes a rat run and the lanes across the fields disappear? I doubt if many of the new residents will be willing to walk to Hempstead Valley and carry their shopping back.