Medway Local Plan (Regulation 19, 2025)

Object

Representation ID: 4896

Received: 11/08/2025

Respondent: Mrs Gillian Mulloy

Legally compliant? No

Sound? No

Duty to co-operate? No

The plan is unsound, unjustifiable, and not in the interests of Medway. Strong rhetoric around cohesion, tourism and pride, while failing to produce any incentives or safeguards that would engender them!

Object

Representation ID: 4899

Received: 11/08/2025

Respondent: Mrs Gillian Mulloy

Legally compliant? No

Sound? No

Duty to co-operate? No

Unsound
Not compliant with NPPF

Object

Representation ID: 4903

Received: 11/08/2025

Respondent: Mrs Gillian Mulloy

Legally compliant? No

Sound? No

Duty to co-operate? No

Breaches NPPF Soundness
Effectiveness: Deliverability fails if early occupation triggers social harm and service overload.
Consistency with national policy: Contravenes NPPF para. 92–95 on healthy, cohesive, and infrastructure‑led growth.
Exposes Local Authority to Judicial Risk
Failing Children Act duties and PSED obligations can form the basis of legal challenge.
Leads to Social and Economic Cost
Service backlogs, early ASB, and estate stigma reduce property values and long-term investment confidence.

Object

Representation ID: 4911

Received: 11/08/2025

Respondent: Mrs Gillian Mulloy

Legally compliant? No

Sound? No

Duty to co-operate? No

If the Medway Local Plan promotes AI as a “key growth sector” (or a thematic focus for planning) but fails to assess AI-related risks — e.g., discriminatory impacts from algorithmic bias in hiring, service provision, policing, or resource allocation — then it may not meet its legal duty.

Object

Representation ID: 4918

Received: 11/08/2025

Respondent: Mrs Gillian Mulloy

Legally compliant? No

Sound? No

Duty to co-operate? No

Transparency and Plan Readiness Concerns.
Independent commentary suggests the Plan is not ready or fit for me Regulation 19 consultation—some essential documents are incomplete or missing
The evidence base is not proportionate or robust enough to justify the health elements of the Local Plan under Reg 19 soundness tests (“justified,” “effective,” “positively prepared,” “consistent with national policy”).


This raises questions over whether health infrastructure needs, such as GP hubs, were fully informed by an adequate evidence base or embedded in the strategic vision.

Does not address GP shortage at local or national level. Aspirational but unsound.

Object

Representation ID: 5024

Received: 11/08/2025

Respondent: Mrs Gillian Mulloy

Legally compliant? Yes

Sound? No

Duty to co-operate? No

A2/A228/A289 corridors congested; Strood/Hoo lack evening PT and GP capacity

No costed Infrastructure Delivery Plan – contrary to NPPF 20
Highways Act 1980, s. 278
Allows councils to require highway works before occupation.

Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL) Regulations 2010
Requires clear funding and phasing of infrastructure supporting growth.

Object

Representation ID: 5030

Received: 11/08/2025

Respondent: Mrs Gillian Mulloy

Legally compliant? No

Sound? No

Duty to co-operate? No

recent study from the Learning & Work Institute estimates that 24% of adults in the Medway Towns lack essential literacy or numeracy skills—skills critical for everyday tasks like reading prescription labels or understanding job-related documents. That equates to around 42,900 adults struggling with these foundational competencies.

Medway has sunk 33m into the Innovation center already. Crime rates, poor skills does lot lend itself as viable business opportunities. Unsound