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Core Strategy - Issues and Options Report
About this stage
This page provides an outline of the process followed in an
earlier stage of the production of the Core Strategy. It has been
made available for reference purposes, and to evidence the work
that has been carried out in the development of the Core
Strategy.
Response to representations
Medway Council is preparing a Local Development
Framework (LDF) that will consist of a portfolio of documents.
It will be the key spatial plan for Medway, guiding development
over the period to 2028 and addressing issues relevant to the area.
The first and most important of the documents is the Core Strategy,
that will set out the vision, strategic objectives and an overall
strategic framework for Medway.
An early stage of the plan preparation process was the
identification of Issues and Options. The Issues and Options
report considered the key issues and challenges facing Medway,
based on an analysis of the characteristics of the area. It also
set out the spatial choices about where development should go. It
was published for public consultation in July 2009:
- so that everyone interested in the future development of Medway
was aware of this work and had an opportunity to influence what is
done in the coming months;
- to test whether the council had identified all the matters that
should be addressed in what will be the LDF Core Strategy;
and
- to explain what broad options there were for the way in which
Medway could develop and seek views on which of those options
should be reflected in the Core Strategy.
The council responded to all the submitted representations and
the responses are available to download below (the following pdfs
are in A3 paper size):
Download the Issues and Options public
consultation report (pdf 857KB).
Issues
A series of issues relevant to Medway were set out in the
report, grouped under the following headings:
- sub-regional context;
- population;
- housing;
- transport;
- economy;
- education and skills;
- retailing and town centres;
- community and social infrastructure;
- leisure, culture and tourism;
- landscape, wildlife, countryside and open spaces;
- minerals;
- waste;
- energy;
- climate change;
- Lodge Hill, Chattenden.
Each section set out the council's key findings, a discussion of
the issues arising from these and then a series of
questions seeking views.
Options
The report also set out five different development options
(spatial choices). Only one option, a new settlement at Lodge Hill,
Chattenden, was supported by the council. Other options were
included because interested parties had suggested them, and to
enable the public to express their views on them. These were:
- Option 1 – Lodge Hill, Chattenden (new settlement) - this is
the option supported by the council;
- Option 2 - Expanded Hoo (village cluster);
- Option 3 – Capstone (urban extension);
- Option 4 – East of Rainham (urban extension);
- Option 5 – North of Rainham (urban extension).
Options 2-5 were promoted by others and were not supported by
the council.
In addition to the council's response the following documents
are available to download:
Following the preparation of the Issues and Options report the
council has published the following documents:
If you would like to be kept informed about the Medway Local
Development Framework, please contact us using the details
below.
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