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Land Rear Of 247-253 High Street And 1-5 Batchelor Street Chatham Medway ME4 4BJ

MC/24/0878Discharge ConditionApproved
Discharge / amendments

Approved on 17 June 2024

Council decision: Discharge of ConditionsDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Details pursuant to condition 13 (Soft and hard Landscaping) and 14 (Landscape management plan) on planning permission MC/22/0238 for Construction of a 5 storey block comprising of four 1-bedroom flats and ten two-bedroom flats, including part semi-basement level comprising ancillary accommodation, external landscaping and cycle/refuse storage.

Received
29 April 2024
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
1
Agent
Kirby Cove Architects
  1. Received29 Apr
  2. Validated29 Apr
  3. Consult.22 May
  4. Target24 Jun
  5. Decided17 Jun

Decided in 49 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to discharge conditions at Land Rear Of 247-253 High Street And 1-5 Batchelor Street Chatham Medway ME4 4BJ. Medway has handled 623 applications of this type. This one was decided in 49 days, 7 days quicker than Medway's typical decision time. The site is in 1 listed building nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. We hold 450 applications in total for the ME4 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
ME4 4BJ
Application type
Discharge Condition
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
29 April 2024
Consultation expiry
22 May 2024
Consultation start
30 April 2024
Consultation end
22 May 2024
Last date for comments
22 May 2024
Target decision date
24 June 2024
Permission expires
17 June 2029

Applicant and agent

Agent
Kirby Cove Architects
Agent address
Studio 10 Dimsdale House Hertford SG14 1BY

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-13007503
Documents
8

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Flood zone 3: High probability (rivers and sea)Part of the site
  • Article 4 direction: Chatham Central & Brompton
  • Brownfield land register: 263-267 High Street ChathamRegister site at or near this address
Also checked, none recorded (22)

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 and heritage coasts.

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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