MEDWAY COUNCIL LOCAL PLAN NEWSLETTER SUMMER 2025
Cliffe and Cliffe Woods Parish Council
Your Medway: Your Future: Your Say: Regulation 19 starts today.
Let's get to it! The draft Medway Local Plan 2041 has been approved by Medway's Full Council for consultation.
Read more about the start of the consultation
What is Medway's Local Plan?
The Local Plan is a statutory document that goes through an independent examination and is used to make decisions on planning applications for new development. By having a plan, it gives us a strategy to ensure housing goes in the right places. We can be proactive on growth, rather than reactive, ensuring we are in control of where the growth should be and what comes with that growth in terms of infrastructure improvements.
What is Regulation 19? It's a planning term and refers to a stage in the local plan-making process, in the context of the Town and Country Planning (Local Planning) (England) Regulations 2012.
We won’t be making any changes to the draft Local Plan at this stage, in line with the legal process. Comments received in this consultation will be submitted alongside the draft Local Plan to the Planning Inspectorate for examination and consideration. It will be for the Planning Inspector to consider any changes that should be made.
The consultation runs from Monday, 30 June to Monday, 11 August 2025.
Read our draft Medway Local Plan 2041
Access supporting documents including a summary version of our draft Medway Local Plan 2041
Visit the website: medway.gov.uk/FutureMedway
If you have any queries on this consultation or require further information and support, please email planning.policy@medway.gov.uk or phone 01634 331629
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