Ground Floor 290 Luton Road Chatham Kent ME4 5BU

MC/04/0366Cert of Lawful Use/Operation - ExistingApproved

Lawful development certificate

Approved on 19 April 2004

Council decision: Approval with ConditionsDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate location: the centre of the postcode, not the exact property.

Proposal

Lawful Development Certificate (existing) for the retention of a hot food take-away business

Received: 25 February 2004
Decision level: Delegated (officer decision)
Council: Medway Council
Ward: Luton And Wayfield Ward

ReceivedReceived25 Feb
ValidatedValidated25 Feb
Consult.Consultation
TargetTarget Date
DecidedDecided19 Apr

Decided in 54 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at Ground Floor 290 Luton Road Chatham Kent ME4 5BU. Medway has handled 235 applications of this type. This one was decided in 54 days. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. We hold 450 applications in total for the ME4 postcode area.

94% of amendment applications at Medway Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode: ME4 5BU
Application type: Cert of Lawful Use/Operation - Existing
Scale / size: Small

Planning application dates

Date validated: 25 February 2004
Application expires: 20 April 2004

Applicant and agent

Agent: Kingsley Smith & Co
Agent address: 81, 87, 89 High Street Chatham Kent ME4 4EE

Planning decision

Statutory period: 55 days

Additional information

Comments: 0
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.

Article 4 direction: Luton
Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

Also checked, none recorded (23)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, 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.

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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.

Source: Medway

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