Pick Your Own
Swale Core Strategy - Options Consultation
Swale Council is preparing its Core Strategy - the most important planning document for Swale. As part of this, the Council produced a consultation document called Pick your own, which was published on 17 January 2011. Consultation has now closed.
Pick your own sought views about the questions we have to face and the possible direction (or options) that Swale should be heading in. These options considered the amount of development that should take place in Swale and where these homes and jobs should be located. Four options were presented in the document, which included ideas about expanding the Port of Sheerness, the Kent Science Park and certain villages. Included in two of the options were 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 - 14 March 2011:
- Pick your own - The Council's Issues and Strategic Spatial Options consultation document. This document, together with other earlier documents, can be viewed via our Online Consultation Portal
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.
- Sustainability Appraisal including Environmental Report and
- Non-technical summary
The Borough Council received some 1800 representations from the general public, landowners, developers and conservation bodies. You can view the Council's response to each representation on our Online Consultation Portal, where you can search for specific representations. Alternatively, you can view the following files:
- Summary of Comments and the Council's Responses to Pick your own (except Question 8 relating to Kent Science Park)
- Summary of Comments and the Council's Responses to Pick your own Q8 (Question 8 only relating to Kent Science Park)
The next stage of the Core Strategy consultation will run from 26 March to 18 May. Find our more by reading our consultation document, Bearing Fruits.
