Rushenden is a village on the

Isle of Sheppey The Isle of Sheppey is an island off the northern coast of Kent, England, neighbouring the Thames Estuary, centred from central London. It has an area of . The island forms part of the local government district of Swale. ''Sheppey'' is derived ...

in the

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Swale Swale or Swales may refer to: Topography * Swale (landform), a low tract of land ** Bioswale, landform designed to remove silt and pollution ** Swales, found in the formation of Hummocky cross-stratification Geography * River Swale, in North ...

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, England, of approximately 500 dwellings. It lies to the south of

Queenborough Queenborough is a town on the Isle of Sheppey in the Swale borough of Kent in South East England. Queenborough is south of Sheerness. It grew as a port near the Thames Estuary at the westward entrance to the Swale where it joins the River M ...

(where, at the 2011 Census, the population was included). A railway spur line formerly passed through the village to a former wharf on the

, although this has now been removed to make way for part of the regeneration scheme.

Regeneration

The masterplan for Queenborough and Rushenden (created in 2003) represents an “exemplar for other masterplanning projects in the

Thames Gateway Thames Gateway is a term applied to an area around the Thames Estuary in the context of discourse around regeneration and further urbanisation. The term was first coined by the UK government and applies to an area of land stretching east from ...

” (South East Regional Design Panel May 2006). The plan includes a Green Charter and Arts strategy which aims to 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

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with Swale Council) sets out a comprehensive approach to regenerating Queenborough and Rushenden. It involves harnessing its setting, history and people, and combining with them proposals for housing, employment, community facilities and recreation. The vision for the masterplan creates a

mixed-use development Mixed-use is a kind of urban development, urban design, urban planning and/or a zoning type that blends multiple uses, such as residential, commercial, cultural, institutional, or entertainment, into one space, where those functions are to some ...

with the potential to support: * 1,800 new homes, split 50/50 between family housing and apartments, rated as Code Level 4 increasing to zero carbon * Up to 180,000 square metres of new employment space with the ability to support over 1,000 new jobs * Up to 20 hectares of

brownfield land In urban planning, brownfield land is any previously developed land that is not currently in use. It may be potentially contaminated, but this is not required for the area to be considered brownfield. The term is also used to describe land prev ...

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 and power plant (CHP). The regeneration plan will cost up to £400 million.

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Villages in Kent Isle of Sheppey {{kent-geo-stub