MEDWAY’S Conservative Council has re-iterated it’s support for Capstone Valley following a damning rejection of Medway’s long-term regeneration plans by Government inspectors.

Yet more encouragement seems to have been thrust upon Medway Magna Ltd – the company wishing to build 9,250 houses on Capstone Valley, when Government inspectors discarded the plans as “unsound”.

In April 2007, Medway and Ditton Conservatives launched a Save Capstone Valley website using the popular blogging software blogspot – and also an online petition, which has to date received over 1500 signautres.

However, plans for the long-term regeneration of Medway which preserved Capstone Valley’s place as valuable green space, were labelled “unsound”, meaning that the Council will have to rethink the £1 million plans before re-submitting them.

The Leader of Medway Council, Councillor Rodney Chambers, was defiant. He told the BBC:

“We [Medway Council] will not release any more greenfield land over and above what we have already identified and extensively consulted on.

“We will seek to speedily bring this to a conclusion by resubmitting our plans at the earliest date possible.

“We have been seeking to deliver quality jobs and homes and regenerate Medway.”

He also continued the support for Capstone Valley by saying, “We are not prepared to let the people of Medway down by releasing further land and will keep our promise that we will never develop Capstone Valley.”

All this emerged last week, but today it was also revealed that Councils would be given more money for building houses. According to the BBC, “Ms Cooper said that despite concerns about building on green spaces, the truth about housing shortages had to be faced.”

In other words, the fight to save Capstone Valley goes on.