Reserved matters: the 250-home phase

Detailed approval for the housing phase. Condition 1 as amended requires reserved matters approval for each phase or sub-phase, highway works excepted, before any development takes place. This is not a paperwork exercise: it is the decision by which the housing phase becomes capable of proceeding. A supplementary objection on the adequacy of the health evidence was filed on 9 September 2026: the Health Impact Assessment relied on four Highparks Medical Practice sites and the Higham branch has since closed and the group asks Medway to say whether the environmental information before it remains adequate. On 18 September 2026 the committee wrote again, on the affordable housing. The section 106 agreement of 2 June 2023 requires the affordable homes to be 60 per cent affordable rented housing and 40 per cent shared ownership. The planning statement filed with this application says 25 per cent of the homes will be affordable, split 60 per cent affordable rent and 40 per cent social rent. It puts the number of affordable homes at 63. The letter asks Medway four questions about which tenure mix it understands the agreement to require and which is now proposed. Medway’s document list labels it an objection; the letter says in terms that it is a request for clarification, not a representation.

• Layout, scale, appearance and landscaping of 250 homes
• Whether the affordable homes are the tenures the section 106 agreement secures

Consultation ended 8 September 2026 — still undecided