Tesco Supermarket - Water Tower Courteney Road Rainham Gillingham Medway ME8 0GX
Approved on 19 October 2023
Council decision: Approval with ConditionsDelegated (officer decision)
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Proposal
Proposal is to paint existing water tower and 'TESCO' Branding to be re-painted centrally to front and rear face of the Tower.
- Received
- 18 August 2023
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- Medway Council
- Ward
- Rainham South West
- ReceivedReceived18 Aug
- ValidatedValidated29 Aug
- Consult.Consultation16 Oct
- TargetTarget Date24 Oct
- DecidedDecided19 Oct
Decided in 51 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is a full planning application at Tesco Supermarket - Water Tower Courteney Road Rainham Gillingham Medway ME8 0GX. Medway has handled 2,531 applications of this type. This one was decided in 62 days, 6 days longer than Medway's typical decision time. 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.
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
- ME8 0GX
- Application type
- Full Application
- Scale / size
- Small
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 29 August 2023
- Consultation expiry
- 16 October 2023
- Neighbour consultation start
- 25 September 2023
- Neighbour consultation end
- 16 October 2023
- Last date for comments
- 16 October 2023
- Target decision date
- 24 October 2023
- Permission expires
- 19 October 2026
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Tree Preservation OrderPart of the site
- Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (23)
flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, Article 4 directions, 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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