Desolation Row is an ongoing collaborative multimedia project that is Medway Eyes' response to the regeneration that is taking place in Medway despite a lack of sufficient public consultation.

We believe that respectful management and preservation of a place's heritage is the key to a successful regeneration, yet we have seen the Theatre Royal demolished, Aveling and Porter groundlessly condemned, and Sun Pier left to ruin. The council can see Sun Pier from their plush new offices. We've asked them when it is going to be fixed. We have not received a reply.

We also observe that regeneration in other areas has opened up waterfronts. Not here though. The waterfront will be covered in flats and closed off from the town by a bus station in the wrong place.

We're letting this project find its own path and allowing it to take as long as it needs to to record change. There will be video, music and maybe a book. It is possible, but unlikely, that a physical gallery exhibition will accompany this project, so do n't be upset if there are no postcards of the hanging The chances are we'll manage another gig.

We're not in it for the money. So why are we doing it? Well, because in the words of Medway Council...

"After extensive public consultation... soon, Chatham will start to see major physical change".

In the mid-1970s, a beautiful naval town's centre was destroyed in order to produce what is now a rotting concrete white elephant known as the Pentagon, an ugly, dated carbuncle of a building that robs the old Town Hall (now the Brook Theatre) of its rightful status as the town's centrepiece.

And here we are again, only this time retail outlets will be built against a backdrop of declining retail sales (the empty dockside effort and tumbleweed Pentagon being prime examples) and we can look forward to unaffordable, uninsurable housing along the banks of our beautiful river Medway. For whom? Well, not us.

They''ll be building a folly whilst leaving the towns to rot. It'll be handy parking for the 2012 Olympics though.

And all of this will be happening without the towns' creatives having been consulted. By "creatives", we mean genuine, driven artists -  not the clique that queues up for council grants and then produces irrelevant, self congratulatory tat. Instead, unnecessary towers designed by somebody with no connection to Medway whatsoever will blight the river, destroying the views from Sun Pier and Gun Wharf forever. Arguably, the Command House has been denigrating the area for some time now, but that's an aside.

Read the summary leaflet here for further official information. If the hairs on the back of your neck don't stand on end, then you are not alive.

Read Monaxle for incisive analysis of one relatively minor but fundamental detail.

Read Sweet Fanny for a no nonsense perspective on the alleged consultative process. Don't go there if you can't handle swear words though. In fact, never step outside your front door if that sort of thing bothers you.

The renovation of the Theatre Royal would have been a genuine act of regeneration and a jewel in the crown, but this blog and this photo set speak for themselves.

Anyway, those of us who love the place we come from, and want to give back rather than simply exploit it will be creating a valuable artistic and historic document over the next year or two.

If you need convincing, here's a word from Ezra Pound and T S Eliot...

And nobody has to think too much about Desolation Row...