Medway Local Plan (Regulation 19, 2025)

Object

Representation ID: 4618

Received: 08/08/2025

Respondent: CPRE Kent

Agent: Mr Richard Thompson

Legally compliant? Yes

Sound? No

Duty to co-operate? Yes

Loss of BMV has not been properly evidenced. Development on brownfield land should be prioritised.
If it is demonstrated that loss of BMV has been evidenced and justified, yield should be optimised and an uplift made in affordable housing provision.
In accordance with the National Design Code ranges of 60-120dph should be applied. Once greenfields are built out they are no longer rural areas, so densities should reflect those of built-up areas.
Query delivery within the plan period and effectiveness of multi-functional landscape corridors.

Object

Representation ID: 4619

Received: 08/08/2025

Respondent: CPRE Kent

Agent: Mr Richard Thompson

Legally compliant? Yes

Sound? No

Duty to co-operate? Yes

Loss of BMV has not been properly evidenced. Development on brownfield land should be prioritised.
If it is demonstrated that loss of BMV and impacts of this functionally linked land has been evidenced and justified, the yield should be optimised and an uplift made in affordable housing provision.
In accordance with the National Design Code ranges of 60-120dph should be applied. Once greenfields are built out they are no longer rural areas, so densities should reflect those of built-up areas.
Development will not be sustainably located as delivery of bus and rail options are unlikely to be deliverable.

Object

Representation ID: 4620

Received: 08/08/2025

Respondent: CPRE Kent

Agent: Mr Richard Thompson

Legally compliant? Yes

Sound? No

Duty to co-operate? Yes

Policy should be consistent with the NPPF.
Query reduction in provision to 25% from the last Regulation 18 consultation.
Golden Rules should be defined (in connection with policy SA6).

Object

Representation ID: 4621

Received: 08/08/2025

Respondent: CPRE Kent

Agent: Mr Richard Thompson

Legally compliant? Yes

Sound? No

Duty to co-operate? Yes

Policy should be amended to make reference to dark skies and tranquillity.

Object

Representation ID: 4622

Received: 08/08/2025

Respondent: CPRE Kent

Agent: Mr Richard Thompson

Legally compliant? Yes

Sound? No

Duty to co-operate? Yes

Policy should be amended to make reference to dark skies and tranquillity.

Object

Representation ID: 4623

Received: 08/08/2025

Respondent: CPRE Kent

Agent: Mr Richard Thompson

Legally compliant? Yes

Sound? No

Duty to co-operate? Yes

Policy should be amended to make reference to dark skies and tranquillity.

Object

Representation ID: 4624

Received: 08/08/2025

Respondent: CPRE Kent

Agent: Mr Richard Thompson

Legally compliant? No

Sound? No

Duty to co-operate? Yes

Loss of green belt and BMV has not been properly evidenced. Development on brownfield land should be prioritised with a targeted call for brownfield sites.
The layout/structure of the local plan is confusing.
Policy index is needed.
Query what differentiates a strategic policy from a thematic on and a thematic policy from a DM policy.
Policies maps are user friendly. Allocation do not appear to be accompanied by a policy number.

Object

Representation ID: 4625

Received: 08/08/2025

Respondent: CPRE Kent

Agent: Mr Richard Thompson

Legally compliant? Yes

Sound? No

Duty to co-operate? Yes

The Council’s vision is not sufficiently clear in terms of addressing, for instance, climate change and strengthening natural assets, or demonstrating that housing and economic needs have been met in full.

Object

Representation ID: 4626

Received: 08/08/2025

Respondent: CPRE Kent

Agent: Mr Richard Thompson

Legally compliant? No

Sound? No

Duty to co-operate? Yes

Policies maps are not user friendly. Allocations do not appear to be accompanied by a policy number.

Object

Representation ID: 4627

Received: 08/08/2025

Respondent: CPRE Kent

Agent: Mr Richard Thompson

Legally compliant? Yes

Sound? No

Duty to co-operate? Yes

Welcome prioritising of the environment.
Strategic objectives should focus on optimising the recycling of land that has already been used for buildings by adopting a truly ‘brownfield first’ strategy.
Building more capacity into local roads will lead to increased car dependant development and urban sprawl in rural areas, which can negatively affect the countryside.