What’s happening?
Chart Sutton Parish Council is preparing a Neighbourhood Plan for our parish. The Chart Sutton Neighbourhood Plan will be a document that contains planning policies that are used to help determine planning applications for development within our Parish. It would sit alongside the Local Plan for Maidstone Borough Council, carrying equal weight in planning decisions.

Why are we doing this?
Neighbourhood planning gives us an opportunity to shape how our parish develops in the future. The Maidstone Local Plan requires us to allocate sites for approximately 35 dwellings and part of the work will involve us identifying a site/sites to deliver this. Alongside this, we can use the neighbourhood plan to set out planning policies on topics including the type of housing to deliver, green spaces we wish to safeguard, community facility priorities and improvements to the promote walking, cycling and riding locally.

How you can get involved
This short survey is one way that we will be gathering information over the coming months about your views on what we should be focusing on in the Neighbourhood Plan. The questions are largely open-ended, giving you an opportunity to share fully your views on a range of topics. Some have a series of questions to inspire your responses.
You can complete all the questions or some of the questions. You are also welcome to complete the survey individually or jointly, for instance, with other members of your family. If you prefer to complete the survey online please visit our website www.chartsutton-pc.gov.uk


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* 1. What do you like most about living in Chart Sutton parish? What could be improved?

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* 2. Types of development – Would you support any of the following and, if so, where? Please use the comments box to expand on your answers

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* 3. Homes – What type of homes do you think are needed in the parish? Are there any other requirements in relation to housing that you think we should be prioritising?

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* 4. Design - We have an opportunity to influence the design of any new development, including eco features. How would you describe the character of Chart Sutton in terms of, for example, typical materials used, features of buildings, styles of architecture that fit in well locally.

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* 5. Local heritage - Are there any buildings or other structures that are important to you and which you think we should be protecting?

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* 6. The natural environment – We have an opportunity to protect valued green spaces locally. Which areas of green space in the parish are important to you and what makes them special?

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* 7. Wildlife and habitats – Are there areas of the parish that you think could be improved for wildlife (animals / plants)?

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* 8. Jobs – What sort of employment opportunities do you think we need to support and is any additional infrastructure needed to do this (e.g. faster broadband, shared workspace, additional retail provision etc.)

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* 9. Tourism - Should we be promoting the parish to visitors? How do you think we could make the parish more enticing to visitors?

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* 10. Public spaces – What do you consider to be the important public spaces here and what you do use them for? Should more space be provided?

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* 11. Getting around – Whilst we have limited influence over the provision and improvement of roads (which is the responsibility of Kent County Council), we can encourage more walking, cycling and horse-riding locally. What could we do to improve provision for walking, cycling and/or horse-riding locally?

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* 12. Local amenities – In terms of actual facilities, are there any community facilities that you think we need or existing ones that should be improved? Do we have adequate facilities for children and teenagers? What about older people? What else could be provided?

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* 13. Flooding - Have you experienced issues related to flooding? Please provide details including the location, the cause and when it happened.

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* 14. Anything else - Is there anything else you’d like to tell us?

About You

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* 15. Please tell us your location:

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* 16. Please tell us your age:

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* 17. Would you like to:

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* 18. If you have answered yes, please provide your contact details

Please note that we will only contact you in relation to the Chart Sutton Neighbourhood Plan and let us know if you wish to be removed from the contact list
Thank you for taking the time to complete the survey. Please press 'Submit' to send us your responses

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