A REVISED planning application for a £120m town centre regeneration project has been submitted after complaints about the previous designs.
Developer Edinburgh House last week gave Gravesham Council its amended plans for the Heritage Quarter in Gravesend.
This follows the council’s regulatory board deferring a decision on the application and asking the developer to make changes to the designs at a meeting in April.
At the meeting, residents and councillors criticised the plans for containing structures which would dwarf historic exisiting buildings, as well as having too many studio and one-bedroom flats.
In the revised designs, the planned new buildings next to St George’s Church are now not higher than the church roof, and all studio flats have been removed from the scheme.
The board is expected to decide on the application in September.
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