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Planning policy

  • Read the current Local Plan
  • Find out about the new Local Plan
  • Find out about developer contributions
  • Read planning policy consultations
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Current planning policies

  • Role of planning policy
  • Medway Local Plan 2003
  • Supplementary Planning Documents
  • National Planning Policy Framework
  • National Planning Practice Guidance
  • Developer contributions and obligations
  • Mitigating bird disturbance
  • Community involvement statement
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New Local Plan

  • New Local Plan (to 2040)
  • Formal stages of the local plan
  • Call for sites 2022
  • Evidence base
  • Previous consultations
  • Timetable - Local Development Scheme
  • Sustainability Appraisals
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Neighbourhood planning

  • Neighbourhood planning
  • Steps towards designating a neighbourhood plan
  • Neighbourhood plans under development in Medway
  • Neighbourhood plan area applications
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Timetable and monitoring

  • Timetable - Local Development Scheme
  • Authority Monitoring Report
  • Housing Delivery Test Action Plan
  • Local Aggregates Assessment
  • Infrastructure Funding Statement
  • View our facts and figures

Registers

  • Brownfield Land Registers
  • Self-build and custom housebuilding register
  • Planning Register Part 3: local development orders register

Planning policy archive

  • Planning policy archive
  • Planning applications
  • Conservation areas and listed buildings
  • Tree management
  • Worried about flood risk
  • Local land charges

Related pages

  • Take part in the Environment Agency’s draft river basin management plans consultation – closes 22 April 2022
  • Take part in the Environment Agency’s draft flood risk management plans for 2021 to 2027 consultation – closes 21 January 2022
  • Regeneration
  • Innovation Park Medway
  • Area Of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB)
  • Flood and water management
  • Natural England
  • Birdwise
  • South East Local Enterprise Partnership
  • Highways England
  • Transport for the South East

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