Ridgeway 11 Park Avenue Gillingham Medway ME7 4AS
Refused on 30 October 2025
Council decision: RefusalDelegated (officer decision)
Proposal
Change of use of Vacant Care Home class (C2) to upto an 8 bed HMO (Sui Generis)
- Received
- 29 August 2025
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Public comments
- 13
- Council
- Medway Council
- Ward
- Watling
- Agent
- EA Town Planning Ltd
- ReceivedReceived29 Aug
- ValidatedValidated4 Sep
- Consult.Consultation2 Oct
- TargetTarget Date30 Oct
- DecidedDecided30 Oct
Decided in 56 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is a full planning application for a change of use at Ridgeway 11 Park Avenue Gillingham Medway ME7 4AS. 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 Gillingham Park conservation area. There have been 3 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 115 applications across Watling. We hold 1,825 applications in total for the ME7 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
- ME7 4AS
- Application type
- Full Application
- Scale / size
- Small
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 4 September 2025
- Consultation expiry
- 9 October 2025
- Consultation start
- 11 September 2025
- Consultation end
- 2 October 2025
- Neighbour consultation start
- 12 September 2025
- Neighbour consultation end
- 3 October 2025
- Last date for comments
- 9 October 2025
- Target decision date
- 30 October 2025
Applicant and agent
- Agent
- EA Town Planning Ltd
- Agent address
- 16 Franklyn Gardens Edgware London HA8 8RY
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Publicity
- Last advertised
- 25 September 2025
- Advertisement expiry
- 9 October 2025
- Site notice start
- 18 September 2025
- Site notice end
- 9 October 2025
Additional information
- Planning Portal ID
- PP-14272576
- Documents
- 9
- Constraints
- 4
Site constraints
Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.
- Conservation area: Gillingham Park
- Article 4 direction: Gillingham Park+1 more
- 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.
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© 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.
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Planning history at this site
3 other applications at this property, newest first.
- 202618 Jun
Details pursuant to condition 3(Cycle Storage), 4(Refuse Storage), 6(Refuse Management Strategy) on planning…
ApprovedDischarge of conditionsMC/26/1165 - 202610 Mar
Change of use of Vacant Care Home Class (C2) to a 7 bedroom HMO Class (Sui Generis).
ApprovedFull ApplicationMC/26/0483 - 202517 Nov
Change of use of a care home (C2) to an 8 room HMO (Sui Generis). Insertion of Juliet balconies to front and…
WithdrawnFull ApplicationMC/25/2254
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Consultants on this application
- EA Town Planning Limited · Agent for this application
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