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Under the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004 (www.opsi.gov.uk/ACTS/acts2004/ukpga_20040005_en_1.htm), all Structure and Local Plan policies were saved for three years from the date of the commencement of the Act or from the date the plan was adopted, if later. As all of Medway’s Local Plan policies were in force when the Act commenced, they were all due to expire after three years, on 27 September 2007.
However, if there were no appropriate Local Development Documents adopted which could replace Local Plan policies, local planning authorities could apply to the Secretary of State to issue a direction to save policies until such time as they were replaced. Medway Council consequently applied to the Secretary of State to save those policies which remained in conformity with national and regional planning policies and the Secretary of State issued a direction on 21 September 2007.
Attached are the formal directions from the Government Office for the South East (GOSE) for the following local plans:
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Letters to both Kent Ccounty Council (KCC) and Medway have been included as appropriate. For the waste and minerals local plans, GOSE sent schedules covering any Medway site-specific policies to Medway Council, while the schedules covering generic or non-Medway site-specific policies went to KCC.
The Kent and Medway Structure Plan was adopted in July 2006 and is consequently automatically saved for three years or until it is replaced by the Regional Spatial Strategy for the South East (www.gose.gov.uk/gose/planning/regionalPlanning/?a=42496).
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