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Core Strategy Public Participation Key Issues and Responses
27/07/2012 - Core Strategy Public Participation: Key Issues and Responses
1. That, without prejudice to consideration of all representations prior to the approval of the Core Strategy for the next round of public consultation planned for December 2012 (regulation 19[1]), and the key issues arising from the 2011 public participation consultation on the draft Core Strategy, the officers’ responses be noted, and the following be agreed:
i)
Replace the 10,000 jobs target set out in policy CS1
with a specific employment floorspace
requirement expressed in square metres;
ii)
Retain junction 8 of the M20 motorway as a strategic
location for economic development to address qualitative and
quantitative employment needs and the aspirations of the
Council;
iii)
Retain junction 7 of the M20 motorway as a medical
campus, and allocate land for development in the Core Strategy in
conjunction with the adjacent redevelopment of Newnham Court Shopping Village, to be guided by an
approved development brief;
iv)
Retain the housing target of 10,080 dwellings in a
dispersed pattern of development;
v)
Retain the two strategic housing development
locations to the north west and south east of the urban area, and
allocate land for development in the Core Strategy to be guided by
development briefs;
vi)
Update Maidstone’s 5-year housing land supply
and housing trajectory to a base date of 1 April 2012, and engage
with the development industry to achieve consensus over the methods
of calculating elements of land supply, including a 5% contingency
allowance;
vii)
Include housing targets in policy CS1 for each of
the rural service centres in accordance with those set out in the
Cabinet report of 9 February 2011, reproduced at paragraph 1.5.22
of the report of the Director of Change, Planning, and the
Environment;
viii)
Include reference to the early release of a
proportion of suitable greenfield sites
at the rural service centres in the Core Strategy in advance of the
adoption of the Development Delivery Local Plan where supported by
evidence of need;
ix)
Note that work is being undertaken on the viability
of Core Strategy policies, including affordable housing, and that a
subsequent report on this issue will be presented to
Cabinet;
x)
Retain the five rural service centres of
Harrietsham, Headcorn, Lenham, Marden and Staplehurst;
xi)
Note that the draft Integrated Transport Strategy,
which is the subject of a separate report attached to the agenda,
addresses the issues relating to improvements to highways and
public transport raised by respondents;
xii)
Rename green wedges as green and blue corridors,
transfer references to corridors in policy CS3 to policy CS1, and
amend the green wedges notations on the key diagram;
xiii) Reword the Gypsy and Traveller accommodation policy (CS12) to provide clarity and to include a landscaping criterion; and
xiv) That the work that is ongoing to provide for a suitable public site(s) for Gypsy and Traveller accommodation be noted
.