Pick Your Own

Swale Council is preparing its Core Strategy - the most important planning document for Swale. As part of this, the Council is looking for views on its consultation document called Pick your own, which is to published on 17 January 2011. Consultation has now closed.

When the core strategy is complete, it will set out a vision to 2031 and a series of development proposals and policies to achieve it.

Pick your own seeks views about the questions we have to face and the possible direction (or options) that Swale should be heading in. These options consider the amount of development that should take place in Swale and where these homes and jobs should be located. Four options are presented in the document, which includes ideas about expanding the Port of Sheerness, the Kent Science Park and certain villages. Included in two of the options are ideas for a new Sittingbourne Southern Relief Road between the M2 and A2.

As part of Swale Borough Council's consultation under Regulation 25 of the Town and Country Planning (Local Development) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2008, the following documents were available for consultation and comment from 17 January 2011:

1. Pick your own - The Council's Issues and Strategic Spatial Options consultation document January 2011. This document can be viewed and saved in a pdf via our Online Consultation Portal
2. Summary leaflet (best viewed as a printed document)

The Council is required to assess the environmental and sustainability implications of the strategic spatial options contained in Pick your own. These can be found within the Sustainability Appraisal (which includes the environmental report as required by the Strategic Environmental Assessment Regulations) and a separate non-technical summary. The documents can be viewed below (from 17 January).

1. Sustainability Appraisal including Environmental Report and
2. Non-technical summary

Consultation on all of these documents ran from 17 January 2011, ending at 5pm on 14 March 2011

The documents can be viewed using the links above or at Council offices and public libraries.

As part of the consultation the Council ran a series of events:

• 18 January 2011, 7pm - Sittingbourne Local Engagement Forum, Woodcombe Sports and Social Club, Murston.
  View the Meeting Notes 18 Jan 2011 and Presentation 18 Jan 2011 slides from this meeting.
• 25 January 2011, 7pm - Sheppey Local Engagement Forum, The Isle of Sheppey Academy, East Site, Minster Road, Minster
  View the Meeting Notes 25 Jan 2011 and Presentation 25 Jan 2011 slides from this meeting
• 31 January 2011, 7pm - Faversham public meeting, Alexander Centre, Preston Street
  View the Meeting Notes 31 Jan 2011 and Presentation 31 Jan 2011 slides from this meeting
• 21 February, 10am - 7.30pm, Teynham Community Hall, Station Road (Open day, with Borough Council staff present)
• 9 March 2011, 7pm - Swale Rural Forum, Eastling Primary School
  view the Presentation slides from this meeting [File size 680kb]

A small exhibition can also be viewed in the Planning Services reception at Swale House during normal office hours.

The Council also ran a Question Time event before an invited audience.