Urgent Save The Hoo Peninsula update: your support is needed for expert ecological evidence!

Thank you to everyone who has already donated, shared our legal fundraiser, and stood with us in the fight to protect the Hoo Peninsula. We now need to ask for your help again. Please donate by visiting our CrowdJustic page by here.

The Medway Council Local Plan Examination has moved into a critical new stage. A live consultation is now underway on a large number of supporting evidence documents that were not available to the public at the Regulation 19 stage. These documents include important material relating to habitats, flood risk, transport, sustainability appraisal and other matters that may affect the soundness and legality of the Plan. 

The deadline for responding is 6 July 2026, so this is an urgent moment for the campaign.

The Hoo Peninsula is not just an area of open countryside. It is a landscape of nationally and internationally important wildlife habitats, protected sites, farmland, villages and estuary environments. The proposed development allocations raise serious ecological concerns, particularly because of their proximity to sensitive habitats used by nightingales, breeding waders, wintering birds and other protected species. To respond properly to this latest consultation, we need specialist ecological input.

Our legal team needs our ecologist to review the new evidence, assess whether the Council’s work properly deals with the risks to protected habitats and species, and help prepare a robust response before the consultation deadline. This work is essential if we are to continue making the strongest possible case at the Local Plan Examination.

Expert ecological evidence is not optional in a case like this. It is the foundation of a serious, evidence-based challenge. That is why we are asking supporters to please donate again, or to make a first donation today.

Your donation will help pay for the urgent ecological work needed to respond to the latest consultation and support our legal team as the Examination progresses.

Please give whatever you can. Every contribution helps us protect the Hoo Peninsula from inappropriate large-scale development and ensures that the wildlife, farmland and communities of this precious area have a strong voice in the process.

Please also share this page with friends, family, neighbours, wildlife groups and anyone who cares about the future of the Hoo Peninsula. Thank you for standing with us.

Help us fund the expert ecological evidence we urgently need. Please donate by visiting our CrowdJustic page by here.