Policy information sourced from the Gravesham Local Plan - Core Strategy

CS09: Culture and Tourism

5.3.15 The Council will seek to maximise opportunities for expansion in culture and tourism activity derived from its rich and diverse heritage and green infrastructure assets, its diversity as a multi-cultural community and from regeneration and growth in the area. This will include support for greater use of the river and will capitalise on the benefits of high speed train services; the appeal of Gravesend as a heritage riverside town; and the development of Ebbsfleet as a new business district and transport hub which will enhance and expand the market for visitors. In particular, the Council will:

  • seek to protect and support improvements to existing cultural and tourist facilities;
  • subject to the application of the sequential approach set out in paragraph 5.3.16, support the provision of new cultural and tourist facilities appropriate to their location and accessibility;
  • support proposals that are designed to meet the diverse needs of Gravesham as a multi-cultural community; and
  • support sustainable rural tourism and leisure developments that benefit rural businesses, communities and visitors where it is compatible with national policies for protecting the Green Belt and where it accords with policies in this plan, in particular relating to Green Infrastructure.

5.3.16 Unless otherwise justified on the basis of a locational connection, functional justification or a requirement to meet smaller scale local needs, proposals involving arts, culture and tourism development will be directed in the first instance to Gravesend Town Centre as the sequentially preferred location for such development in advance of edge of centre and then out of centre sites*.

* For the purposes of applying this policy, Gravesend Town Centre is identified as the Town Centre boundary on Figure 18: Gravesend Town Centre Plan and on the Policies Map. Edge of centre is defined as a location that is well connected and up to 300 metres walking distance of the Town Centre boundary. Out of Centre is defined as a location that is not in or on the edge of centre but not outside the urban area.

For more information please see the Gravesham Core Strategy