Rushenden

Rushenden

Rushenden Marsh, looking back towards Rushenden Hill and Rushenden Village
Rushenden
 Rushenden shown within Kent
DistrictSwale
Shire countyKent
RegionSouth East
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post town Queenborough
Postcode district Swale
Dialling code 01795
Police Kent
Fire Kent
Ambulance South East Coast
EU Parliament South East England
UK ParliamentSheppey and Sittingbourne
List of places
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England
Kent

Coordinates: 51°25′N 0°44′E / 51.41°N 0.74°E / 51.41; 0.74

Rushenden is a village on the Isle of Sheppey in the Borough of Swale in Kent, England, of approximately 500 dwellings. It lies to the south of Queenborough. A railway spur line passes through the village to a former wharf on the Swale.

Regeneration

The masterplan for Queenborough & Rushenden (created in 2003)[1] represents an “exemplar for other masterplanning projects in the Thames Gateway” (South East Regional Design Panel May 2006).

A key element of the process has been the community consultation in the form of “Planning for Real”. A Green Charter and Arts strategy will ensure that the development addresses sustainability as well as using art to act as the “glue” that binds the community together with its surrounding landscape.

The masterplan (by Homes and Communities Agency with Swale Council) sets out a comprehensive approach to regenerating Queenborough & Rushenden. It involves harnessing its setting, history and people, and combining with them proposals for housing, employment, community facilities and recreation.[1]

The vision for the masterplan creates a mixed-use development with the potential to support:

The regeneration plan will cost up to £400 million.[2]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Dyson, Lewis (21 June 2013). "£400m regeneration project in Queenborough and Rushenden at crucial stage as land is cleared". kentonline.co.uk. Retrieved 19 March 2014.
  2. Dyson, Lewis (8 November 2013). "Plans for 250 homes in Rushenden Road delayed until next year". kentonline.co.uk. Retrieved 19 March 2014.

External links

Media related to Rushenden at Wikimedia Commons


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