Rushenden
Encyclopedia
Rushenden is a village in the Borough
of Swale
in Kent
, England
, currently made up of approximately 500 dwellings.
The process leading to the masterplan and supporting documentation has been lengthy but necessary and has included many design and technical studies.
A key element of the process has been the intensive community consultation in the form of “Planning for Real” that has happened at all stages. A Green Charter and Arts strategy will ensure that the development addresses all aspects of sustainability as well as using art to act as the “glue” that binds the community together with its surrounding landscape.
The masterplan sets out a comprehensive approach to regenerating Queenborough & Rushenden. It involves harnessing the strengths of the place; its setting, history and people, and combining with them physical proposals for housing, employment, community facilities and recreation. The masterplan will create a place with a strong identity that will help to put the area on the map.
The vision for the masterplan creates a mixed-use development with the potential to support:
Borough
A borough is an administrative division in various countries. In principle, the term borough designates a self-governing township although, in practice, official use of the term varies widely....
of Swale
Swale
Swale is a local government district with borough status in Kent, England. Its council is based in Sittingbourne. The borough is named after the narrow channel called The Swale, a channel that separates the mainland of Kent from the Isle of Sheppey, and which occupies the central part of the...
in Kent
Kent
Kent is a county in southeast England, and is one of the home counties. It borders East Sussex, Surrey and Greater London and has a defined boundary with Essex in the middle of the Thames Estuary. The ceremonial county boundaries of Kent include the shire county of Kent and the unitary borough of...
, England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
, currently made up of approximately 500 dwellings.
Future Plans
The masterplan for Queenborough & Rushenden represents an “exemplar for other masterplanning projects in the Thames Gateway” (South East Regional Design Panel May 2006).The process leading to the masterplan and supporting documentation has been lengthy but necessary and has included many design and technical studies.
A key element of the process has been the intensive community consultation in the form of “Planning for Real” that has happened at all stages. A Green Charter and Arts strategy will ensure that the development addresses all aspects of sustainability as well as using art to act as the “glue” that binds the community together with its surrounding landscape.
The masterplan sets out a comprehensive approach to regenerating Queenborough & Rushenden. It involves harnessing the strengths of the place; its setting, history and people, and combining with them physical proposals for housing, employment, community facilities and recreation. The masterplan will create a place with a strong identity that will help to put the area on the map.
The vision for the masterplan creates a mixed-use development with the potential to support:
- Up to 2,000 new homes, split 50/50 between family housing and apartments, rated as Code Level 4 increasing to zero carbon
- Up to 180,000 sq m of new employment space with the ability to support over 1,000 new jobs
- Up to 20 hectares of brownfield land remediated
- 180 berth Marina and community water space facility
- Improved public realm
- Provision of new Community/Educational Facilities
- 1.5 km of new strategic infrastructure
- Development of a Combined Heat & Power Plant (CHP).