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Sports Cpourts Higham Recreation Ground School Lane Higham Rochester Kent ME3 7JL

20191259Proposed Lawful Development CertificateApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 11 February 2020

Council decision: Certificate GrantedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Application for a Lawful Development Certificate in respect of re-surfacing and proposed extension to the existing tennis courts by an extra metre on the west and east sides and 4 metres on the south side, incorporating extension to the enclosed fencing to a height of 3.4m, and relocation of two of the existing floodlight columns on the southern side of the court area.

Received
2 December 2019
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Higham
  1. Received2 Dec
  2. Validated30 Dec
  3. Consult.28 Jan
  4. Target24 Feb
  5. Decided11 Feb

Decided in 43 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for an extension at Sports Cpourts Higham Recreation Ground School Lane Higham Rochester Kent ME3 7JL. Gravesham has handled 589 applications of this type. This one was decided in 71 days, 2 weeks longer than Gravesham's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded 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 7JL
Application type
Proposed Lawful Development Certificate
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Higham

Planning application dates

Date validated
30 December 2019
Consultation expiry
28 January 2020
Consultation start
7 January 2020
Consultation end
28 January 2020
Target decision date
24 February 2020

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-08262835
Comments
0
Documents
11
Constraints
11

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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.

Data © Crown copyright and others · sources and licences

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© Historic England 2026. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. The Historic England GIS Data contained in this material was obtained on 2026-11-03. The most publicly available up to date Historic England GIS Data can be obtained from HistoricEngland.org.uk.

© Natural England copyright. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Flood Map for Planning, Open Government Licence v3.0.

Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Source: Gravesham

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