Medway Local Plan (Regulation 19, 2025)

Support

Representation ID: 4953

Received: 11/08/2025

Respondent: Mr Richard Carpenter

Deep water wharf needed or enclosed dock with lock gate due to closure of Chatham dock

Object

Representation ID: 4963

Received: 11/08/2025

Respondent: Mr Richard Carpenter

Legally compliant? Yes

Sound? No

Duty to co-operate? Yes

The people that worked at Chatham dock were carrying on a tradition that went back centuries. A lock gate that supposedly couldn’t be fixed drove out firms. Working in character less warehouses is not the same, the workforce loose that connection to the past and the generations that came before. Absolute travesty

Support

Representation ID: 4968

Received: 11/08/2025

Respondent: Mr Richard Carpenter

The Hoo peninsula has lost so much sporting facilities.
It beggars belief that the land to the west of the swimming pool at Hoo was given over for a house build.
I’m in my 50s. When growing up in Hoo we had the use of a members club (Bp later called BaE - swimming, football, cricket, tennis, squash etc), Deangate golf, Sturdee club (football and cricket), Jordan House boys club, Arethusa venture in Upnor, the school playgrounds would be open. All gone and none replaced.

Support

Representation ID: 4972

Received: 11/08/2025

Respondent: Mr Richard Carpenter

I don’t really care about more homes, Hoo hasn’t been a village for years. What it does need is a community centre. Bp club was obviously not local authority but with the planned extra housing coming it should never have been allowed to close. BaE could have been given planning permission for part of it if they agreed to keep running it. There is a desperate need for a sports and social club like it.