Proposed Submission: Gravesham Local Plan Core Strategy

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Road Transport5.5.25 The Borough has benefitted from recent investment in a number ofroad schemes. This includes the realignment and widening of the A2 to 4lanes, the opening of the Ebbsfleet A2 junction and link road, and changes tothe one way system in Gravesend Town Centre as the first phase ofimplementing the integrated transport interchange. Despite this, parts of theBorough experience traffic congestion particularly during morning and eveningpeak period as a result of commuter based traffic. This is especially the casein the urban area and along the A2. Gravesend town centre experiencescongestion on weekdays and on Saturdays associated with retail and otherbusiness activities 26 . The resulting exhaust emissions have led to poor airquality in some areas which has led to the declaration of a number of AirQuality Management Areas, e.g. one way system in Gravesend town centre,A2, some of the junctions on Old Road East/West.5.5.26 The County Council is planning to expand its Urban TrafficManagement and Control system to cover Gravesend town centre. This willhelp to maximise the efficiency of the local highway network and createsmoother traffic flows. It should reduce traffic pollution in the relevant AirQuality Management Areas but this may be balanced by traffic growth.5.5.27 The Highways Agency has concerns about the impact of developmentin the Borough and Dartford on the strategic road network and how anyimpacts will be mitigated. The Borough Council will work jointly with theHighways Agency, Kent County Council, Dartford Borough Council and allother relevant parties to ensure that the transport needs arising from newdevelopment in the Borough are met (see Policy CS10 Physical and SocialInfrastructure) and that the most efficient use is made of the existing highwaynetwork, e.g. through management measures and the introduction ofinformation systems.5.5.28 The Dartford Crossing is one of the UK's most important strategicconnections but its capacity is considerably overloaded for large periods for26 Kent Thameside Development of the Transport Strategy – Technical Summary Report(Final Draft) October 2008148
the day. A study carried out on behalf of the Department for Transport hasidentified three longer term options to provide additional capacity and furtherwork is being carried out on these. Kent County Council makes it clear thatthey support the option of a new Lower Thames Crossing to the East ofGravesend 27 . Gravesham Borough Council does not support a Lower ThamesCrossing in Gravesham and has resolved that such an alignment is notacceptable on environmental grounds. Until such time as there is asafeguarded route, it is not possible for the Core Strategy to take any accountof the implications of additional capacity.5.5.29 The Council recognises the constraints to the development ofGravesend Riverside East and North East Gravesend Opportunity Area andresulting impacts on air quality caused by the capacities of the junctions at theOrdnance Road/Milton Road and Dering Way/Lion Roundabout. It retains theaspiration for a road bridge to be provided over the Thames and MedwayCanal and North Kent railway line to link the areas to the north and south ofthe railway but this is unlikely to happen during the plan period.Impact of Development on the Transport Network5.5.30 A Kent Thameside multi-modal transport model has been used toassess the impact of development proposed in Dartford and Gravesham. Themodel runs have shown that, even when a number of committed and fundedtransport schemes are taken into account, and despite generally good publictransport provision, the level of development planned in the Boroughs wouldsignificantly affect the operation of the highway network. In response, apackage of strategic transport infrastructure improvements at key locationswas identified to enable the development to be realised whilst maintaining anacceptable level of performance across the transport network - the StrategicTransport Investment Programme (STIP). These are listed in the LocalTransport Plan and are subject to regular review.5.5.31 Additional technical work using the development quantities proposed inthis plan and the adopted Dartford Core Strategy to 2028 have shown that27 Local Transport Plan for Kent 2011-2016149
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Proposed Submission:Gravesham Local
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4.1 Sustainable Development .......
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1.2.3 When adopted, the Local Plan
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a focus for growth and regeneration
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• Working with partners to develo
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- 2028). However in keeping with ex
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Canal Basin12
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Kent. There is also a regular passe
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2.3 Settlement pattern2.3.1 Gravese
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2.3.8 Culverstone Green lies south
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2.5.3 In addition to the need to pr
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2.7.4 As well as contributing to th
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small scale, involving redevelopmen
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Gravesend riverfront26
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community. It will have started to
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• SO5 Create a mixed use communit
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3.3 Key DiagramFigure 2: Key diagra
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Opportunity AreaCS14 - Housing Type
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communities in Gravesend,Northfleet
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quality through the improvedprovisi
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• any adverse impacts of doing so
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Gravesham 10 . It seeks to make ful
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Table 3: Housing Land SupplyA) All
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ange of facilities. Most of the hou
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4.2.20 The distribution and amount
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Development DistributionTable 5: Di
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4.2.25 Development will be distribu
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4.3.3 This Core Strategy aims to tr
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Figure 3: Opportunity areas within
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4.4.1 The Northfleet Embankment and
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a multi-modal industrial and wareho
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4.5 Gravesend Riverside East and No
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Roundabout will also need to be con
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Basin was a maritime hub and, as su
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B1c) with the latter providing arou
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Figure 10: Key site 2.1 Canal Basin
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4.6 Gravesend Town Centre Opportuni
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quality and range of supply whilst
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Rathmore Road link between Stone St
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uilding in the Upper Windmill Stree
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has more potential as the upper gar
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