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Wybournes Farm Wybournes Lane High Halstow Rochester Medway ME3 8SD

MC/25/0884Agricultural to residentialApproved
Prior approval

Approved on 26 June 2025

Council decision: Prior Approval Required - ApprovedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Prior notification under Schedule 2, Part 3, Class Q of the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) Order 2015 (as amended) for the change of use of two agricultural barns to 8 dwellinghouses (Class C3)

Received
28 April 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
3
Ward
Hoo St Werburgh & High Halstow
Agent
Planning Insight
  1. Received28 Apr
  2. Validated6 May
  3. Consult.30 May
  4. Target1 Jul
  5. Decided26 Jun

Decided in 51 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a planning application for a change of use at Wybournes Farm Wybournes Lane High Halstow Rochester Medway ME3 8SD. Medway has handled 22 applications of this type. This one was decided in 59 days, 3 days longer than Medway's typical decision time. The site is in 1 listed building nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 82 applications across Hoo St Werburgh & High Halstow. We hold 1,082 applications in total for the ME3 postcode area.

90% of all 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
ME3 8SD
Application type
Agricultural to residential
Scale / size
Small
Parish
High Halstow

Planning application dates

Date validated
6 May 2025
Consultation expiry
20 June 2025
Consultation start
8 May 2025
Consultation end
30 May 2025
Neighbour consultation start
8 May 2025
Neighbour consultation end
30 May 2025
Last date for comments
20 June 2025
Target decision date
1 July 2025
Permission expires
26 June 2028

Applicant and agent

Agent
Planning Insight
Agent address
12-18 Theobalds Road London WC1X 8SL

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Site notice start
30 May 2025
Site notice end
20 June 2025

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-13932711
Documents
17
Constraints
2

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (24)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, 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.

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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