Maidstone Council is moving ahead with plans to create character assessments. On Tuesday evening 31st July 07, representatives of The North Loose Residents Association, Valley Conservation Society and Loose Parish Council undertook a walk about of an area spanning from Armstrong road, south to Loose. Also present were Borough Councillors, MBC officers and the consultants who have been commissioned to under take this pilot project.
The purpose is to define the character of the area, with the resulting documentation then to be worked up in to a planning document called a Supplementary Planning Document. This will be an extremely important document by which planning applications in the future can then be judged against. This will help ensure that future planning policy is robust as it will be the yard stick by which applications can be judged to determine if they are in keeping with the character of the area.
This work must then be rolled out across the whole of the Borough to complete the planning document so all areas are affored the same protection.Clearly this is a large undertaking for the council but is a giant step in the right direction and not a moment to soon.
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