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Land At East Hill Chatham Kent

MC/25/0811Approval of Reserved MattersApproved
Reserved matters

Approved on 25 November 2025

Council decision: Approval with ConditionsPlanning committee6 conditions

Approximate location: the centre of the postcode, not the exact property.

Proposal

Reserved Matters application for Phase 2 (for the construction of 36 residential units together with associated access, parking, landscaping, open space, infrastructure and earthworks) pursuant to Outline application MC/19/0765 (APP/A2280/W/21/3280915) - Outline application (with all matters reserved except access) for the erection of up to 800 dwellings with a primary school, supporting retail space of up to 150sqm and a community or nursery facility with an associated road link between North Dane Way and Pear Tree Lane and other road infrastructure, open space and landscaping.

Received
16 April 2025
Decision level
Planning committee
Public comments
10
Ward
Lordswood & Walderslade
Agent
DHA Planning
  1. Received16 Apr
  2. Validated23 Apr
  3. Consult.15 May
  4. Target26 Nov
  5. Decided25 Nov

Decided in 216 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application at Land At East Hill Chatham Kent. Medway has handled 618 applications of this type. This one was decided in 223 days, 24 weeks longer than Medway's typical decision time. There have been 13 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 91 applications across Lordswood & Walderslade.

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
Approval of Reserved Matters
Scale / size
Large
Number of dwellings
36

Planning application dates

Date validated
23 April 2025
Consultation expiry
22 May 2025
Consultation start
23 April 2025
Consultation end
15 May 2025
Neighbour consultation start
24 April 2025
Neighbour consultation end
16 May 2025
Last date for comments
22 May 2025
Target decision date
26 November 2025
Committee meeting
19 November 2025
Permission expires
25 November 2027

Applicant and agent

Applicant
Private applicant
Agent
DHA Planning
Agent address
Eclipse House Eclipse Park Sittingbourne Road Maidstone ME14 3EN

Planning decision

Case officer
Hannah Gunner
Statutory period
217 days

Publicity

Last advertised
8 May 2025
Advertisement expiry
22 May 2025

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-13937061
Documents
59
Constraints
10

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

  • Flood zone 2: Medium probability (rivers and sea)
  • Article 4 direction: Chatham Central & Brompton
Also checked, none recorded (23)

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, 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.

Planning history at this site

13 other applications at this property, newest first.

  1. 2026
    29 Jul

    Reserved Matters application for Phase 5 pursuant to Outline permission ref. MC/19/0765

    PendingReserved mattersMC/26/1440
  2. 2026
    24 Jul

    Reserved matters application to consider matters of (appearance, layout, landscaping, scale and access)…

    PendingReserved mattersMC/26/1411
  3. 2026
    22 Jul

    Details pursuant to condition 28 (Noise), 33 (Telecommunication infrastructure) and 45 (External Lighting) in…

    PendingDischarge of conditionsMC/26/1394
  4. 2026
    9 Mar

    Details pursuant to condition 36 (Access) on planning permission MC/19/0765

    Discharge of ConditionsDischarge of conditionsMC/26/0465
  5. 2026
    2 Mar

    Application for a Non-Material Amendment on planning permission MC/25/0812

    ApprovedNon-material amendmentMC/26/0405
  6. 2026
    26 Jan

    Details pursuant to condition 18( CEMP - phase 2,3,4), 24 (Ecological Mitigation Strategy), 25 (Biodiversity…

    Discharge of ConditionsDischarge of conditionsMC/26/0119

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