183 High Street Gillingham ME7 1AQ
Approved on 23 December 2016
Council decision: ApprovalDelegated (officer decision)
Proposal
Application for a Lawful Development Certificate (existing) for change of use from office (Class B1) to residential (Class C3)
- Received
- 18 July 2016
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- Medway Council
- Ward
- Gillingham South Ward
- Agent
- Danks Badnell Architects Ltd.
- ReceivedReceived18 Jul
- ValidatedValidated17 Aug
- Consult.Consultation
- TargetTarget Date28 Dec
- DecidedDecided23 Dec
Decided in 128 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is an application to amend a permission at 183 High Street Gillingham ME7 1AQ. Medway has handled 235 applications of this type. This one was decided in 158 days, 15 weeks longer than Medway's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. We hold 1,825 applications in total for the ME7 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
- ME7 1AQ
- Application type
- Cert of Lawful Use/Operation - Existing
- Scale / size
- Medium
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 17 August 2016
- Target decision date
- 28 December 2016
Applicant and agent
- Agent
- Danks Badnell Architects Ltd.
- Architect profile
- DANKS BADNELL ARCHITECTS LIMITED
- Agent address
- Danks Badnell Architects Ltd. Kings Stables 3-4 Osborne Mews Windsor SL4 3DE
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 133 days
Site constraints
Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.
- Article 4 direction: Gillingham South
- 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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Source: Medway
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