Medway Local Plan (Regulation 19, 2025)

Support

Representation ID: 4757

Received: 10/08/2025

Respondent: Kent Downs AONB Unit

Request amendment. Please refer to Letter containing all the responses of the KDNL Team attached to this Representation for details of amendment/s sought to this section of the Plan given that text formatting does not carry over into this Consultation Form. This letter has also been submitted today by email to the Planning Policy team at Medway Council.

Support

Representation ID: 4758

Received: 10/08/2025

Respondent: Kent Downs AONB Unit

we support Strategic Objective ‘Prepared for a sustainable and green future’ to ‘conserve and enhance assets of international and national importance for nature and landscape, including the Kent Downs National Landscape’, as our previous consultation responses had requested.

Object

Representation ID: 4760

Received: 10/08/2025

Respondent: Kent Downs AONB Unit

Legally compliant? Yes

Sound? Yes

Duty to co-operate? Yes

Kent Downs National Landscape designation should be included in the Key Diagram

Support

Representation ID: 4761

Received: 10/08/2025

Respondent: Kent Downs AONB Unit

Amend paragraph 3.1.8 to more accurately reflect the requirements of the NPPF paragraph 188 and the LURA Protected Landscapes Duty as follows:
‘There are also large areas designated of international and national environmental importance. In considering potential development allocations in suburban and rural areas, the Council acknowledges the need to conserve and enhance these important habitats and landscapes, including the natural beauty of the Kent Downs National Landscape, and to plan at an appropriate scale to support effective infrastructure delivery’.

Support

Representation ID: 4762

Received: 10/08/2025

Respondent: Kent Downs AONB Unit

Support acknowledgement of the high level of internationally and nationally Protected Landscapes in Medway, including the Kent Downs National Landscape.

Support

Representation ID: 4763

Received: 10/08/2025

Respondent: Kent Downs AONB Unit

General Comment: There is a lot of overlap between policies in this Chapter. For clarity, we suggest that Policy S6 Kent Downs National Landscape is moved to sit immediately after Policy S3 in order to reflect the hierarchy of international and national designated landscapes in Medway, and that Policy S7, for similar reasons, would sit better earlier on in the chapter rather than at the end as is currently drafted, where it appears adrift from the other strategic policies.

Object

Representation ID: 4764

Received: 10/08/2025

Respondent: Kent Downs AONB Unit

Legally compliant? Yes

Sound? Yes

Duty to co-operate? Yes

Request BNG requirement of 20% in line with Principle BD9 of the adopted AONB Management Plan 2021 - 26. In particular we wish to see a BNG requirement of 20% for the strategic allocations at Strood West (SA6) and Capstone Valley (SA7)

Support

Representation ID: 4765

Received: 10/08/2025

Respondent: Kent Downs AONB Unit

Request amendment. Please refer to Letter containing all the responses of the KDNL Team for details of amendment/s sought to this section of the Plan given that text formatting does not carry over into this Consultation Form. This letter has also been submitted today by email to the Planning Policy team at Medway Council.

Support

Representation ID: 4766

Received: 10/08/2025

Respondent: Kent Downs AONB Unit

Support this policy

Support

Representation ID: 4767

Received: 10/08/2025

Respondent: Kent Downs AONB Unit

Amend Figure 2 to include a National Landscape layer within “Tier 1: designated sites SPA SAC Ramsar, National Landscape, and SSSI”.