The Medway Local Plan

A Giveaway to Developers, Not a Plan for Locals

Once upon a time, the “Local Plan” meant something real. It meant building homes for families, protecting green spaces for our kids, creating local jobs, and shaping a future controlled by the people who actually live here.

But open the latest Medway Local Plan, and what do you get? A developer’s wishlist disguised as planning policy, with a cheap side of “public consultation” that’s little more than a joke.

Look around Medway. See a green field? The new plan calls it a “mixed-use opportunity” — translation: bulldozers incoming. That tired playground near you? Soon to be “luxury apartments with communal mud.” Historic sites? Rebranded as “potential residential development” — a polite way of saying “tear it down and cash in.”

And the so-called consultation? Your voice? Worth about as much as a soggy biscuit on a building site. Developers get VIP seats. You get a meaningless online survey and hollow promises your views are “valued.” Want to be heard? You’d have better luck yelling into a cement mixer. The public consultation is nothing but a PR stunt designed to tick boxes while the real decisions get made behind closed doors.

Who benefits?
Not the families pushed out of their communities by rising costs.
Not the commuters still waiting decades for promised infrastructure.
Not the kids whose football pitches are marked for “future business parks.”
No — the only winners are the developers, consultants, and investors grinning all the way to the bank.

You want local jobs? The plan suggests you’ll be commuting to London or working scaffolding jobs.
You want green space? Prepare to be squeezed between concrete blocks.
You want a say? Fill in that survey — it’ll go straight in the shredder.

So, ask yourself: who is this plan really for? Because it’s not for the people of Medway. It’s for the big-money property speculators.

Reform UK is not here to backroom deals and developer handouts. We stand for the families, the workers, and the residents who make Medway their home. We demand a Local Plan that protects our green spaces, invests in infrastructure, creates real jobs, and puts community needs first — not one that sells us out to the highest bidder.

If this Local Plan truly cared about locals, it wouldn’t need a marketing team and glossy brochures to sell it. It would come with real protections and real ambition — not empty promises and bulldozers waiting in the wings.

Next time you see suits waving “Local Plan” documents while diggers roll in, remember:

If you like it, you’re probably a developer. If you don’t, you’re the people who actually live here — and we’re fighting for you.

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