Policy information sourced from the Medway Local Plan 2003

BNE14 Development in Conservation Areas

Development within Conservation Areas, or affecting their setting, should achieve a high quality of design which will preserve or enhance the area’s historic or architectural character or appearance. The following criteria will be applied:

  1. materials, features and details of buildings or structures which contribute to the character or appearance of the area should be retained or reinstated; and
  2. traditional street patterns, building lines, open spaces and urban spaces, paving and roadway materials, boundary treatments and street furniture should be retained or reinstated; and
  3. the scale, height, mass, roofscape, materials, detailing, fenestration, plot width and depth, and visual appearance of new development should be sympathetic with existing buildings and their settings; and
  4. trees, hedgerows and open spaces should be retained and protected; and
  5. hard and soft landscape elements and traditional materials which enhance the area should be utilised.

Proposals should be submitted as full applications when they are within, or would affect, a Conservation Area.

For more information please see the Medway Local Plan 2003