Land Off Matts Hill Road, To The South Of The M2 Medway Services (West Bound).
Approved on 22 November 2023
Council decision: EIA RequiredDelegated (officer decision)
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Proposal
Town and Country Planning Act (Environmental Impact Assessment) Regulations 2017 (as amended) request for a screening opinion for construction of a PV Array and ancillary development including fencing, electrical equipment, vehicular access, CCTV equipment, landscaping and associated engineering works.
- Received
- 2 November 2023
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Public comments
- 11
- Council
- Medway Council
- Ward
- Rainham South East
- Agent
- Alder King Planning Consultants
- ReceivedReceived2 Nov
- ValidatedValidated3 Nov
- Consult.Consultation21 Nov
- TargetTarget Date24 Nov
- DecidedDecided22 Nov
Decided in 19 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is an outline application at Land Off Matts Hill Road, To The South Of The M2 Medway Services (West Bound).. Medway has handled 618 applications of this type. This one was decided in 20 days, 5 weeks quicker than Medway's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 84 applications across Rainham South East.
89% of outline 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
- Application type
- Screening Opinion
- Scale / size
- Medium
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 3 November 2023
- Consultation expiry
- 21 November 2023
- Consultation start
- 7 November 2023
- Consultation end
- 21 November 2023
- Last date for comments
- 21 November 2023
- Target decision date
- 24 November 2023
- Permission expires
- 22 November 2028
Applicant and agent
- Agent
- Alder King Planning Consultants
- Agent address
- Pembroke House 15 Pembroke Road Bristol BS8 3BA
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 21 days
Additional information
- Documents
- 8
- Constraints
- 10
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Tree Preservation OrderPart of the site · +2 more
- National Landscape (AONB): Kent Downs
- Ancient woodlandPart of the site · +1 more
- Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (21)
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, SSSIs, Special Areas of Conservation, Special Protection Areas, Ramsar sites, 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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