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The Orchards School Lane Higham Rochester Kent ME3 7HP

20220960Certificate Existing Lawful Use/DevAwaiting decision
Lawful development certificate
Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Application for Lawful Development Certificate in respect of the existing building works comprise alterations, extensions, new buildings and existing use as a family home

Received
31 August 2022
Decision due
27 October 2022
Public comments
1
Ward
Higham
  1. Received31 Aug
  2. Validated1 Sep
  3. Consult.22 Sep
  4. Target27 Oct
  5. Decided

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Comments close on 22 September.

Comment on the council's siteDocuments (17)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at The Orchards School Lane Higham Rochester Kent ME3 7HP. Gravesham has handled 219 applications of this type. It has been with the council since 31 August 2022 and is still awaiting a decision. 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.

79% of amendment 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 7HP
Application type
Certificate Existing Lawful Use/Dev
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Higham

Planning application dates

Date validated
1 September 2022
Consultation expiry
22 September 2022
Consultation start
1 September 2022
Consultation end
22 September 2022
Neighbour consultation start
1 September 2022
Neighbour consultation end
22 September 2022
Last date for comments
22 September 2022

Applicant and agent

Agent address
The Office The Larches Higham Rochester ME3 7NQ

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-11491512
Documents
17
Constraints
13

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

Contains public sector information from planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG and local planning authorities), licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© 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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