26 Maidstone Road Rochester Medway ME1 1RJ
Approved on 3 October 2025
Council decision: Approval with ConditionsDelegated (officer decision)3 conditions
Proposal
Construction of a first floor extension to rear
- Received
- 2 August 2025
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Public comments
- 1
- Council
- Medway Council
- Ward
- Rochester West & Borstal
- Agent
- Alpha Design Studio Limited
- ReceivedReceived2 Aug
- ValidatedValidated8 Aug
- Consult.Consultation30 Aug
- TargetTarget Date3 Oct
- DecidedDecided3 Oct
Decided in 56 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is a full planning application for an extension at 26 Maidstone Road Rochester Medway ME1 1RJ. Medway has handled 2,531 applications of this type. This one was decided in 62 days, 6 days longer than Medway's typical decision time. The site is in the Watts Avenue and Roebuck Road conservation area. 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 1RJ
- Application type
- Householder
- Scale / size
- Small
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 8 August 2025
- Consultation expiry
- 4 September 2025
- Consultation start
- 8 August 2025
- Consultation end
- 30 August 2025
- Neighbour consultation start
- 8 August 2025
- Neighbour consultation end
- 30 August 2025
- Last date for comments
- 4 September 2025
- Target decision date
- 3 October 2025
- Permission expires
- 3 October 2028
Applicant and agent
- Agent
- Alpha Design Studio Limited
- Architect profile
- ALPHA DESIGN STUDIO LIMITED
- Agent address
- 43 Park Road Sittingbourne ME10 1DY
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Publicity
- Last advertised
- 21 August 2025
- Advertisement expiry
- 4 September 2025
- Site notice start
- 13 August 2025
- Site notice end
- 4 September 2025
Additional information
- Planning Portal ID
- PP-14224792
- Documents
- 9
- Constraints
- 4
Site constraints
Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.
- Conservation area: Watts Avenue/Roebuck Road
- Article 4 direction: Watts Avenue
- Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (22)
flood storage 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.
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