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The Rose Garden Chinese Restaurant 88-90 Canterbury Street Gillingham ME7 5UF

MC/17/0785Full ApplicationApproved
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Approved on 22 June 2017

Council decision: Approval with ConditionsDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Change of use from A3 (restaurant) to mixed use A3 and A5 (restaurant with hot food take away)

Received
1 March 2017
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Gillingham South Ward
  1. Received1 Mar
  2. Validated8 Mar
  3. Consult.31 Mar
  4. Target22 Jun
  5. Decided22 Jun

Decided in 106 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at The Rose Garden Chinese Restaurant 88-90 Canterbury Street Gillingham ME7 5UF. Medway has handled 2,531 applications of this type. This one was decided in 113 days, 8 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.

89% of full 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 5UF
Application type
Full Application
Scale / size
Medium

Planning application dates

Date validated
8 March 2017
Consultation expiry
4 April 2017
Consultation start
10 March 2017
Consultation end
31 March 2017
Neighbour consultation start
10 March 2017
Neighbour consultation end
31 March 2017
Last date for comments
31 March 2017
Target decision date
22 June 2017

Applicant and agent

Agent
Sibley Pares
Agent address
1 Ashford Road Maidstone Kent ME14 5BJ

Planning decision

Statutory period
106 days

Publicity

Advertisement expiry
4 April 2017
Site notice start
14 March 2017
Site notice end
4 April 2017

Additional information

Comments
0
Documents
8
Constraints
1

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • 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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