Lidsing Garden Community SPD

Comment

Representation ID: 713

Received: 15/12/2025

Respondent: Stockbury Parish Council

1. Intended Strategic Traffic Routing

Proposed SPD insertion – Section B (Movement & Transport), following introductory transport principles

Insert a new paragraph stating:

“The Garden Community is intended to be served primarily by the strategic road network, including routes towards the M2, A229 and Maidstone. The use of narrow rural roads to the south and east of the site for through-traffic is not an intended outcome of the development.”



2. Recognition of Sensitive Rural Lanes Beyond the Site

Proposed SPD insertion – Section B (Road Hierarchy and Access)

Insert a new subsection identifying that:

“Narrow rural roads beyond the site boundary, including but not limited to Kemsley Street, White Hill Road, Cox Street and Scragged Oak Road, are roads of limited capacity and are not intended to form part of the Garden Community’s strategic movement network.”



3. Transport Assessment Assumptions

Proposed SPD insertion – Section B (Outline Planning Application Requirements)

Add a requirement that:

“Transport Assessments accompanying outline planning applications must test non-preferred routing scenarios, including potential movements towards the A249 via rural lanes to the south and east of the site.”



4. Monitor and Manage – Baseline and Scope

Proposed SPD insertion – Section B or Section D (Monitor and Manage Framework)

Insert new text requiring that:

“Baseline traffic data shall be collected on affected rural lanes to the south and east of the site prior to first occupation, and shall form part of the monitoring framework.”

7. Interim and Early Access Arrangements

Proposed SPD insertion – Section B (Phasing and Interim Arrangements)

Add text stating:

“Interim access arrangements and early phases of development must be designed so as not to encourage the use of narrow rural roads as through-routes.”

Comment noted.
The SPD sets out additional guidance on the approach to transport assessment and mitigation (Chapter 7.3) with further detail provided in the accompanying Transport Annex. More detailed assessment of transport impacts and the design of transport mitigation measures, including off-site, will need to be set out as part of the formulation and consideration of future planning applications.

Comment

Representation ID: 714

Received: 15/12/2025

Respondent: Stockbury Parish Council

4. Monitor and Manage – Baseline and Scope

Proposed SPD insertion – Section B or Section D (Monitor and Manage Framework)

Insert new text requiring that:

“Baseline traffic data shall be collected on affected rural lanes to the south and east of the site prior to first occupation, and shall form part of the monitoring framework.”

5. Early-Phase Monitoring

Proposed SPD insertion – Section D (Delivery and Phasing)

Insert a new paragraph stating:

“Monitoring of traffic impacts on surrounding rural lanes shall commence in early phases of development and shall not be deferred until later phases.”



6. Adaptive Mitigation Commitment

Proposed SPD insertion – Section D (Delivery Framework / Planning Obligations)

Insert a paragraph stating:

“Where monitoring demonstrates unacceptable impacts on rural lanes, appropriate mitigation measures may be required and secured through planning obligations, to be agreed with the highway authority.”

8. Engagement with Affected Parishes

Proposed SPD insertion – Section D (Cross-Boundary and Stakeholder Engagement)

Insert a requirement that:

“Outline planning applications shall set out how parish councils likely to experience downstream traffic impacts will be engaged in monitoring and mitigation discussions.”

Comment noted.
The SPD sets out additional guidance on the approach to transport assessment and mitigation (Chapter 7.3) with further detail provided in the accompanying Transport Annex. More detailed assessment of transport impacts and the design of transport mitigation measures will need to be set out as part of the formulation and consideration of future planning applications.
The SPD takes forward the requirements of Policy LPRSP4(B) of the Local Plan Review which established the necessary scope of infrastructure, which confirms the spur being opening in phase 2 (2033-2038).
Figure 41 at Section D of the SPD replicates the required phasing of development and associated infrastructure.
Infrastructure will be secured through the use of planning conditions and legal agreements, as part of the consideration and determination of future planning applications which will also set out provisions for suitable traffic monitoring.

Comment

Representation ID: 715

Received: 15/12/2025

Respondent: Stockbury Parish Council

Lidsing Garden Community Supplementary Planning Document

Stockbury Parish Council request that the following amendments and additions be made to the Lidsing Garden Community SPD to address the risk of additional through-traffic on narrow rural roads to the south and east of the allocation.

Closing Statement

Stockbury Parish Council consider that these additions fall within the proper scope of a Supplementary Planning Document and are necessary to ensure that the impacts of the Lidsing Garden Community on surrounding rural roads are appropriately managed.

Comment noted.
The SPD sets out additional guidance on the approach to transport assessment and mitigation (Chapter 7.3) with further detail provided in the accompanying Transport Annex. More detailed assessment of transport impacts and the design of transport mitigation measures, including off-site, will need to be set out as part of the formulation and consideration of future planning applications.