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Little Mockbeggar Farm Town Road Higham Rochester Kent ME3 8ER

20250594Prior ApprovalDecided
Outline / PiP

Decided on 28 August 2025

Council decision: No Decision Notice

Proposal

Application to determine if prior approval is required for a proposed; Installation of solar panels to the roofs of the existing security/storage building and extended section of the existing packhouse/coldstore building, of the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) Order 2015 (as amended) - Schedule 2, Part 14, Class J.

Received
16 June 2025
Public comments
1
Ward
Higham And Shorne
  1. Received16 Jun
  2. Validated16 Jun
  3. Consult.7 Jul
  4. Target11 Aug
  5. Decided28 Aug

Decided in 73 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for a solar installation at Little Mockbeggar Farm Town Road Higham Rochester Kent ME3 8ER. Gravesham has handled 589 applications of this type. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 129 applications across Higham And Shorne. 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 8ER
Application type
Prior Approval
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Higham

Planning application dates

Date validated
16 June 2025
Consultation expiry
18 July 2025
Consultation start
16 June 2025
Consultation end
7 July 2025
Last date for comments
18 July 2025
Target decision date
11 August 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent address
2 The Parade Ash Road Hartley Kent DA3 8BG

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Site notice start
26 June 2025
Site notice end
18 July 2025

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14094095
Documents
13
Constraints
10

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

  • 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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