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St Margaret's Church Rainham Gillingham ME8 8LB

CAN/26/2142Awaiting decision
Approximate location: the centre of the postcode, not the exact property.

Proposal

Horse Chestnut (T1) URN 19152 - Reduce North facing crown to a retained lateral spread of 6m, to reduce load on union of co-dominant stems with significant bark inclusion, Horse Chestnut (T2) URN 19151 - Reduce North facing crown to a retained height of 18m and lateral spread of 4m, to reduce load on North facing co-dominant stem unions with split forming on both sides.

Received
6 November 2026
Ward
Rainham South West
  1. Received6 Nov
  2. Validated10 Nov
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided

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About this application

This is a planning application at St Margaret's Church Rainham Gillingham ME8 8LB. Medway has handled 5,390 applications of this type. It has been with the council since 10 November 2026 and is still awaiting a decision. The site is in 7 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 64 applications across Rainham South West. We hold 802 applications in total for the ME8 postcode area.

Application details

Postcode
ME8 8LB

Planning application dates

Date validated
10 November 2026

Applicant and agent

Applicant
Private applicant

Additional information

Documents
1

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (24)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders, green belt, 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: Medway

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