Objectors to plans for a new school and residential development fear for children's safety and the pressure on roads, as planners prepare to vote on the future of a quarry.

Plans for a 1,150-place school alongside 181 homes and a wedding and conference venue in Frindsbury were put forward in February.

The Department for Education - which has applied to build the school which will be run by the Thinking Schools Academy Trust - hope it will accommodate Medway Council's needs.

The authority earlier revealed it expects around 2,700 Year 7 places would be needed by 2023.

Another application seeks to convert the Grade I-listed Manor Farm Barn and adjoining cowshed into a wedding venue and conference facility with 15-bedrooms for guests.

Next week, a meeting of the council's planning committee will consider an application to extend the permission to fill a chalk quarry on the southern edge of the site, and restore the land by the end of 2024.

Trisha Stuart lives in Parsonage Lane and her house would back onto the new housing development.

Under the plans, access to the houses would be via Parsonage Lane, while cars would access the school from Frindsbury Hill.

Manor Farm Barn would have an entrance from Berwick Way.

She said: "It's quite a busy road at peak times anyway when Frindsbury Hill is busy it takes ages to get up the road. It's going to be manic.

"Children will be coming out of the entrance of Frindsbury Hill and if they are walking and playing around someone's going to get killed."

Trisha, who has lived in the road for 30 years, said her and fellow residents lost a plea to keep the quarry empty and is disturbed by the noise the infilling currently causes.

She said: "We can hear the lorries when they are unloading and it causes a lot of dust.

"Medway is one of the worst places for pollution and with all these extra houses and cars, the pollution is going to be worse."

Ward councillor Stephen Hubbard (Lab) said of his residents: "Their concerns are traffic, noise and loss of aspect as well as the loss of the semi-rural nature of Parsonage Lane, which would become part of the urban area."

The planning committee member advised although the consultation is due to end on Sunday, April 4, people would still be able to make representations after then, and councillors will likely debate the plans in June or July.

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