Chambers Farm Town Road Higham Rochester Kent ME3 8ER
Approved on 7 May 2026
Council decision: Permitted12 conditions
Proposal
Erection of building for use as packaging materials store.
- Received
- 12 January 2026
- Public comments
- 4
- Council
- Gravesham Borough Council
- Ward
- Higham And Shorne
- ReceivedReceived12 Jan
- ValidatedValidated15 Jan
- Consult.Consultation10 Feb
- TargetTarget Date8 May
- DecidedDecided7 May
Decided in 112 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is a full planning application at Chambers Farm Town Road Higham Rochester Kent ME3 8ER. Gravesham has handled 2,688 applications of this type. This one was decided in 115 days, 8 weeks longer than Gravesham's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area. There have been 2 other applications 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.
74% of full 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
- Full Planning Application
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Higham
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 15 January 2026
- Consultation expiry
- 9 April 2026
- Consultation start
- 26 March 2026
- Consultation end
- 10 February 2026
- Neighbour consultation start
- 20 January 2026
- Neighbour consultation end
- 10 February 2026
- Last date for comments
- 9 April 2026
- Target decision date
- 8 May 2026
Applicant and agent
- Applicant
- Private applicant
- Architect profile
- GRAHAM SIMPKIN PLANNING LIMITED
- Agent address
- Graham Simpkin Planning Ltd 2 The Parade Ash Road Hartley DA3 8BG United Kingdom
Planning decision
- Case officer
- Mrs Katherine Parkin
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Additional information
- Planning Portal ID
- PP-14436232
- Documents
- 18
- Constraints
- 10
Site constraints
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.
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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.
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© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Flood Map for Planning, Open Government Licence v3.0.
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Associated applications
- 202621 Sep
Application for approval of condition 3, 5, 6, 7 and BNG Informative attached to planning permission…
PendingDischarge of conditions20260944 - 202612 Jan
Erection of building for use as packaging materials store.
This applicationApprovedFull20260026 - 202612 Jan
Erection of an extension to the existing Cold Store/Packhouse/Distribution Building.
ApprovedFull Planning ApplicationFiled alongside20260027
Source: Gravesham
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- 11.8 miBasildon
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