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Unit 4 Ambley Road Gillingham Business Park Gillingham Medway ME8 0PU

MC/23/2677Certificate of Proposed UseApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 19 January 2024

Council decision: ApprovalDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Application for a Lawful Development Certificate (proposed) for change from Class E retail to Class E indoor, sport, recreation and fitness and operation on a 24 hours basis.

Received
30 November 2023
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Watling
Agent
Urbanspace Planning Ltd
  1. Received30 Nov
  2. Validated30 Nov
  3. Consult.
  4. Target25 Jan
  5. Decided19 Jan

Decided in 50 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application at Unit 4 Ambley Road Gillingham Business Park Gillingham Medway ME8 0PU. Medway has handled 618 applications of this type. This one was decided in 50 days, 6 days quicker than Medway's typical decision time. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 115 applications across Watling. We hold 802 applications in total for the ME8 postcode area.

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

Postcode
ME8 0PU
Application type
Certificate of Proposed Use
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
30 November 2023
Target decision date
25 January 2024
Permission expires
19 January 2027

Applicant and agent

Agent
Urbanspace Planning Ltd
Agent address
5 Duncombe Close Hertford SG14 3DB

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-12603734
Comments
0
Documents
9
Constraints
1

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Article 4 direction: Watling
  • Tree Preservation OrderPart of the site
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (22)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, 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.

Data © Crown copyright and others · sources and licences

Contains public sector information from planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG and local planning authorities), licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© 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.

© Natural England copyright. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Flood Map for Planning, Open Government Licence v3.0.

Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

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