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Greatfield Lodge Darnley Road Strood Rochester Medway ME2 2UU

MC/24/0374Discharge ConditionApproved
Discharge / amendments

Approved on 13 March 2024

Council decision: Discharge of ConditionsDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Details pursuant to conditions 6 (bats and lighting) and 7 (biodiversity enhancements) on planning permission MC/17/4357 for proposed part demolition of existing communal facilities block and addition of first floor to create a two-storey building (block 3), addition of new storey to block 1 to create a three/four storey building and extension to front and external staircase to block 2 and other associated works to facilitate conversion of Greatfield Lodge Residential Hostel into 14 one bed and 10 two bed residential self contained flats including creation of an access road onto the site from Hawthorn Road and inclusion of derelict land to the rear of No. 276 Hawthorn Road to form part of the overall site

Received
20 February 2024
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
1
Ward
Strood West
  1. Received20 Feb
  2. Validated20 Feb
  3. Consult.13 Mar
  4. Target16 Apr
  5. Decided13 Mar

Decided in 22 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to discharge conditions at Greatfield Lodge Darnley Road Strood Rochester Medway ME2 2UU. Medway has handled 623 applications of this type. This one was decided in 22 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 34 applications across Strood West. We hold 916 applications in total for the ME2 postcode area.

97% of conditions 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
ME2 2UU
Application type
Discharge Condition
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
20 February 2024
Consultation expiry
13 March 2024
Consultation start
21 February 2024
Consultation end
13 March 2024
Last date for comments
13 March 2024
Target decision date
16 April 2024
Permission expires
13 March 2029

Applicant and agent

Agent address
66 Coptefield Drive Belvedere DA175RL

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-12820484
Documents
3
Constraints
8

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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.

Data © Crown copyright and others · sources and licences

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© 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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  2. 2023
    23 Nov

    Details pursuant to conditions 8 (boundary treatment), 10 (cycle storage) and 14 (hedge along eastern…

    Discharge of ConditionsDischarge of conditionsMC/23/2632
  3. 2017
    18 Dec

    Proposed part demolition of existing communal facilities block and addition of first floor to create a…

    Approval with ConditionsFull ApplicationPart ofMC/17/4357

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