Residents in a rural area of Kent are being invited to shape the future of their community.

Medway Council is asking villagers on the Hoo Peninsula to help create a plan to support pubs, clubs, open areas, and other community spaces through a series of drop-in sessions.

The authority has commissioned consultants PRD, Augarde & Partners and Urban Silence to assess where investment is most needed to stimulate community, culture and leisure on the peninsula.

Facilities taken into account will be those which reflect the history of Hoo, its landscape, and are places which host cultural events and activities, as well as those which offer potential for the physical, economic and social transformation of the area.

In order to get the views of residents, the council is running six sessions across four days to share their ideas.

With feedback from residents, they will create a community infrastructure framework (CIF) to set out what community facilities the people living on the Peninsula need now, and in the future, and how to deliver them.

This will act as a roadmap to support decision-making and investment.

The drop-in sessions will be:

On Friday, May 10, 6pm to 8pm, at Cliffe Woods Community Centre.

On Saturday, May 11, between 10am and 11am at Hoo Library, at Stoke Village Hall from noon to 2pm, and at High Halstow Memorial Hall between 3pm and 5pm.

Another session will take place at Allhallows Primary Academy on Sunday, May 12, between 10am and noon.

And on Thursday, May 16, from 6pm to 8pm at Chattenden Community Centre.

In February, the council put the call out for 50 residents to join a community panel to help in the design of the infrastructure framework.

The council says, since then, the panel has been part of regular workshops to develop plans.

The finished CIF will be used to inform Medway’s Local Plan - the blueprint of what can be built and where - which is currently under development.

The total cost of the consultants’ involvement with the council for the creation of the CIF is around £70,000.

For more information on the Hoo Peninsula CIF click here.

The sessions, starting on Friday (May 10), are open to anyone and no booking is required.