3 Whitehouse Farm Oast School Lane Higham Rochester Kent ME3 7JH
Refused on 21 December 2017
Council decision: Certificate RefusedDelegated (officer decision)
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Proposal
Application for a Lawful Development Certificate in respect of the proposed erection of a detached shed/storage building at the side.
- Received
- 4 October 2017
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- Gravesham Borough Council
- Ward
- Higham
- ReceivedReceived4 Oct
- ValidatedValidated10 Oct
- Consult.Consultation13 Nov
- TargetTarget Date5 Dec
- DecidedDecided21 Dec
Decided in 72 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is an outline application at 3 Whitehouse Farm Oast School Lane Higham Rochester Kent ME3 7JH. Gravesham has handled 589 applications of this type. This one was decided in 78 days, 3 weeks longer than Gravesham's typical decision time. There have been 4 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 1 application across Higham. We hold 1,082 applications in total for the ME3 postcode area.
76% of outline applications at Gravesham Borough Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).
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Application details
- Postcode
- ME3 7JH
- Application type
- Certificate Proposed Lawful Use/Dev
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Higham
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 10 October 2017
- Consultation expiry
- 13 November 2017
- Consultation start
- 23 October 2017
- Consultation end
- 13 November 2017
- Last date for comments
- 13 November 2017
- Target decision date
- 5 December 2017
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Green belt: Gravesham
- Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (23)
flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, registered parks and gardens, registered battlefields, Heritage at Risk entries, nutrient neutrality catchments, national parks, National Landscapes, SSSIs, Special Areas of Conservation, Special Protection Areas, Ramsar sites, ancient woodland, national nature reserves, local nature reserves, heritage coasts and brownfield registers.
A guide only, from official open data; it is not a planning search. Flood zones cover rivers and sea, not surface water.
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Planning history at this site
4 other applications at this property, newest first.
- 20188 Jan
Erection of a detached shed/storage building at the side of the dwelling.
RefusedFull Planning Application20180015 - 20171 Dec
Application for the approval of condition 3 attached to planning permission ref. no. 20170703
ApprovedDischarge of conditions20171302 - 201728 Jun
Conversion of the garage into a habitable room and enlargement of two windows to create two doors.
ApprovedFull Planning Application20170703 - 20177 Mar
Conversion of the existing garage into a habitable room and erection of an outbuilding for storage in the…
RefusedFull Planning Application20170234
Source: Gravesham
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