At a meeting of Swale Borough Council last night, our Parish Council chairman tabled a question addressed to the Leader. He asked for reassurance, given the delay to the Local Plan process, that all inappropriate and non-allocated speculative planning applications would be refused in order to protect our precious green spaces.  He also requested a clear timetable for public communication and engagement in advance of the next Regulation 19 consultation.  A transcript of the questions and answers can be viewed HERE

 

The draft Local Plan had previously included 1,400 new houses in Lynsted and Teynham, an area lacking in facilities and infrastructure as well as suffering from high levels of traffic congestion and poor air quality.  It was also proposed to construct a bypass over agricultural land in Lynsted which would have split the Parish in two.