Medway Local Plan (Regulation 19, 2025)

Support

Representation ID: 4404

Received: 26/07/2025

Respondent: Mrs Clare Marshall

Health - Medway Maritime parking is terrible. Buses do have sufficient routes to the hospital, but are not reliable enough. Sxhools need to faciliate real opportunities for children. My daughter's career ambitions were thwarted by Rainham School for Girls not allowing her to study sciences, despite getting reasonable GCSEs. After and before school and holiday clubs are essential for working parents, but also to allow the retired to not just be unpaid/low paid child supervision. Child care. Transport - previous comment the road network is not resilient.

Support

Representation ID: 4405

Received: 26/07/2025

Respondent: Mrs Clare Marshall

I support only if "material considerations" does not mean in practice that the environment, water and sewage capacity, flood protection, or quality standards are pushed aside.

Support

Representation ID: 4406

Received: 26/07/2025

Respondent: Mrs Clare Marshall

This should be done in conjunction iwth the Making Space for Nature plan.

Object

Representation ID: 4407

Received: 26/07/2025

Respondent: Mrs Clare Marshall

Legally compliant? Yes

Sound? No

Duty to co-operate? Yes

The consultation dates and locations did not allow for people with different working patterns. Only one event during the day at a location would have been difficult for those working or supporting childcare to attend. In my case I already had commitments on the date in my local area.

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?

Support

Representation ID: 4409

Received: 26/07/2025

Respondent: Mrs Clare Marshall

It is critical for biodeversity and flood protection that the developers are held to account. Planting a hedge does not equal genuine nett gain if no-one ensures that the hedge thrives and is allow to grow big enough for the biodiversity to use it. Many of the sites allocated in particular around Darland Banks and to the East of Rainham need proper ecological assessments to ensure that the process of building and then the finished developments do not negatively impact wildlife in the neighbouring areas e.g. species that use a wider area to forage.

Support

Representation ID: 4410

Received: 26/07/2025

Respondent: Mrs Clare Marshall

This should include the Making Space for Nature plan

Support

Representation ID: 4411

Received: 26/07/2025

Respondent: Mrs Clare Marshall

Lighting impacts can be mitigated by timers/motion sensors. This would also reduce the running costs of the lighting in wildlife senstive areas. The urban heating effect also needs consideration as urban development expands across the area. The marshes are extremely important for flood defences and wildlife. Restrictions should be placed on dog walking close to the marshes and all wildlife senstive areas with legal implications of breaches e.g. dogs harasing wildlife.

Object

Representation ID: 4412

Received: 26/07/2025

Respondent: Mrs Clare Marshall

Legally compliant? Yes

Sound? No

Duty to co-operate? Yes

We have lost 97% of our wildlife meadows to farming and such meadows need poor quality land. Therefore, assuming that poor quality farming land has no biodiversity value is wrong. This land could, with the right management, significantly improve biodiversity. Developments in this area is on rare chalk grassland - even more important to ensure that all grassed areas are planted as meadows not just green grass and managed for wildlife, not just for children playing football.

Object

Representation ID: 4413

Received: 26/07/2025

Respondent: Mrs Clare Marshall

Legally compliant? Yes

Sound? No

Duty to co-operate? Yes

Lower Rainham has significant traffic problems. When I commuted from Kemsley Paper mill to Rainham I was always stuck at the traffic lights through to Mierscourt Road.The Leigh Academy has resulted in parents parking on Lonsdale drive to meet their children from this school due to insufficient parking nearby. Anything goes wrong on the M2 and this area log jams.
It may be high value allocation for people, but the northern most field (previous pear orchard now meadow) supports rare red shanked carder bees, solitary bees, butteflies and a large white dead nettle and other plants extremely beneficial to pollinators.