Description
Rochester and Strood constituency is a developed part of north Kent alongside the River Medway estuary, with a wide salty and sea-like part of the Thames Estuary on its north border. It spans two of the five Medway Towns: Rochester and Strood and the villages of Strood Rural and the Hoo Peninsula.
Medway or Medway Towns are the collective names for the single conurbation, the largest conurbation in South East England outside London that compasses the towns of Strood, Rochester, Chatham, Gillingham, Rainham, Kent and a surrounding narrow buffer. Included among these are several rural settlements on the Hoo Peninsula and on the west bank of the Medway valley.
Chatham town centre is an important sub-regional shopping centre and in the 2010s is subject to a £1 billion regeneration programme to transform it into Medway’s unquestionably main centre. Rochester and Strood Riversides are the names of large urban brownfield sites, and one of the main development projects in the Thames Gateway. A substantial new mixed use developments will include some 3,000 plus new mixed tenure homes, offices and shops, two new hotels, restaurants, river walks and open spaces and links to historic Rochester.
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