Kings School Rochester The Old Hall Boley Hill Rochester Medway ME1 1TE
Approved on 17 June 2025
Council decision: Approval with ConditionsDelegated (officer decision)
Proposal
Construction of a single storey extension to side of existing classrooms
- Received
- 25 April 2025
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Public comments
- 2
- Council
- Medway Council
- Ward
- Rochester West & Borstal
- Agent
- Brookes Architects Ltd
- ReceivedReceived25 Apr
- ValidatedValidated25 Apr
- Consult.Consultation23 May
- TargetTarget Date20 Jun
- DecidedDecided17 Jun
Decided in 53 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is a full planning application for an extension at Kings School Rochester The Old Hall Boley Hill Rochester Medway ME1 1TE. Medway has handled 2,531 applications of this type. This one was decided in 53 days, 3 days quicker than Medway's typical decision time. The site is in the Historic Rochester conservation area, with 12 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 131 applications across Rochester West & Borstal. We hold 340 applications in total for the ME1 postcode area.
89% of full 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
- ME1 1TE
- Application type
- Full Application
- Scale / size
- Small
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 25 April 2025
- Consultation expiry
- 6 June 2025
- Consultation start
- 1 May 2025
- Consultation end
- 23 May 2025
- Neighbour consultation start
- 2 May 2025
- Neighbour consultation end
- 24 May 2025
- Last date for comments
- 6 June 2025
- Target decision date
- 20 June 2025
- Permission expires
- 17 June 2028
Applicant and agent
- Agent
- Brookes Architects Ltd
- Architect profile
- BROOKES ARCHITECTS LIMITED
- Agent address
- Unit 1 56 Glentham Road London SW13 9JJ
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Publicity
- Last advertised
- 15 May 2025
- Advertisement expiry
- 5 June 2025
- Site notice start
- 15 May 2025
- Site notice end
- 6 June 2025
Additional information
- Planning Portal ID
- PP-13973004
- Documents
- 8
- Constraints
- 5
Site constraints
Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.
- Conservation area: Historic Rochester
- Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (22)
flood storage areas, Article 4 directions, 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.
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