Object

Representation ID: 4408

Received: 26/07/2025

Respondent: Mrs Clare Marshall

Legally compliant? Yes

Sound? No

Duty to co-operate? Yes

Sufficient sewage and water capacity should be dealt with in advance of housing, not afterwards as a minimum. Similarly, other infrastructure - developers have to provide as houses are built not years later e.g. GP surgeries, shops, schools still be waited for after people move in. Biodiversity nett gain - e.g. if tree planting is done, how will the survival of those trees be managed and monitored to see that the nett gain has occurred? Will developers be penalised if the promised gain does ont materialise? How will this be dealt with?

Object

Representation ID: 4435

Received: 29/07/2025

Respondent: Mrs Jayne Dunn

Legally compliant? No

Sound? No

Duty to co-operate? No

I reject the need for this amount of extra housing. If Sadiq Khan can reject his quota, why can't Medway? How can you guarantee that the new houses will be for local residents? How many of the new houses on Otterham Quay Lane were taken up by Medway residents. The pressure on local infrastructure has not been addressed. Medway Hospital is already stretched to breaking point. Congestion on the roads is atrocious. You say Medway population is growing - only because of the constant house building!

Object

Representation ID: 4498

Received: 04/08/2025

Respondent: Mrs Elizabeth Poynter

Legally compliant? Yes

Sound? No

Duty to co-operate? Yes

When we have built on everything that is possible, what happens a then?
Is there a saturation point that the government accepts written into documentation?

The plan talks about local character but the general merge into one urbanisation removes any local character other than historic.

Object

Representation ID: 4568

Received: 07/08/2025

Respondent: Mr Phil Worton

Legally compliant? No

Sound? No

Duty to co-operate? No

I do not believe the calculation for required housing in the area is accurate unless the plan is to encourage more people into the community and if this is the plan, then I think you should be transparent about where they are coming from.

Support

Representation ID: 4718

Received: 09/08/2025

Respondent: Miss Jackie Forrest

Need to use brown field sites not farmer's field we need that for food

Object

Representation ID: 4851

Received: 10/08/2025

Respondent: Mrs Gillian Mulloy

Legally compliant? No

Sound? No

Duty to co-operate? No

The NPPF requires that the standard method be the starting point for determining housing need, not the end point. Local Plans must then consider whether there are exceptional circumstances that justify a higher or lower figure, such as environmental constraints, infrastructure capacity, market absorption rates, and deliverability. Medway’s plan does not demonstrate that this exercise has been carried out.

2. Outdated or incomplete evidence base
The Strategic Housing Market Assessment underpinning this figure is not transparently published alongside updated demographic forecasts, post-2021 Census data, or realistic infrastructure capacity modelling. Without this, the figure’s legality and robustness are in question.