Maidstone - LPRSP5(C): Lenham Broad Location for Housing Growth

Policy information sourced from the Maidstone Borough Council Local Plan 2021-2038

LPRSP5(C): Lenham Broad Location for Housing Growth.

Implementation and future revisions to the Neighbourhood Plan will incorporate and address the following principles in the delivery of 1,000 homes as per the Lenham Neighbourhood Plan:

1. Make efficient use of land and provide a broad range of housing choice by size and tenure (including market and affordable housing) and cater for people with special housing needs;
2. Outline measures to mitigate the traffic impacts from development on the strategic and local road networks;
3. Identify appropriate provision of, or contributions towards infrastructure improvements;
4. Incorporate primary school(s) and secondary school(s) if the scale of development justifies on site provision, or if not, contributions to provision off-site in order to meet the needs generated by the broad location;
5. Ensure development is fully integrated with the surrounding village through shared community uses, and a variety of transport modes including walking, cycling and public transport;
6. Provide, commensurate with the scale of development, a network of open spaces and green infrastructure for amenity, play, sport and recreation, including allotments, local nature reserves woodlands, green spaces and wildlife corridors. Such provision should respond positively to the wider area to ensure enhanced linkages and networks;
7. Incorporate appropriate landscape treatment which ensures that developments can be satisfactorily assimilated into the surrounding area;
8. Protect and, where possible, enhance any features of biodiversity value on site or which are off-site but might be affected by the proposed development;
9. Incorporate an appropriate flood risk management strategy and measures for its implementation;
10. Ensure adequate provision is made for enhanced and comprehensivesewerage infrastructure;
11. Development in Lenham and Lenham Heath that would result in a net increase in population served by a wastewater system will need to ensure that it will not have an adverse effect on the integrity of Stodmarsh SAC/SPA/Ramsar site. Where a proposed development falls within the Stour Catchment (e.g. Lenham, east of Faversham Road), or where sewage from a development will be treated at a Waste Water Treatment Works that discharges into the river Stour or its tributaries, then applicants will be required to demonstrate that the requirements set out in the advice letter and accompanying methodology on Nutrient Neutrality issued by Natural England have been met. This will enable the council to ensure that the requirements of the Habitats Regulations are being met;
12. The Neighbourhood Plan will preserve and enhance the character and appearance of the conservation area and protect the significances of listed buildings including their setting; and
13. Proposals shall be designed to appropriately mitigate any impacts on thesetting of the Kent Downs.

For more information, please visit Maidstone’s Local Plan Maidstone Borough Council Local Plan 2021-2038