142 High Street Rainham Gillingham Medway ME8 8AR
Approved on 15 May 2026
Council decision: Approval with Conditions9 conditions
Proposal
Construction of 2 flats on a vacant empty plot.
- Received
- 4 October 2025
- Public comments
- 2
- Council
- Medway Council
- Ward
- Rainham South West
- Agent
- A. Maan Architectural Services Ltd
- ReceivedReceived4 Oct
- ValidatedValidated21 Oct
- Consult.Consultation27 Nov
- TargetTarget Date16 Dec
- DecidedDecided15 May
Decided in 206 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is a full planning application at 142 High Street Rainham Gillingham Medway ME8 8AR. Medway has handled 2,531 applications of this type. This one was decided in 223 days, 24 weeks longer than Medway's typical decision time. The site is in the Rainham conservation area, with 2 listed buildings nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 63 applications across Rainham South West. We hold 802 applications in total for the ME8 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
- ME8 8AR
- Application type
- Full Application
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Not Available
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 21 October 2025
- Consultation expiry
- 15 December 2025
- Consultation start
- 6 November 2025
- Consultation end
- 27 November 2025
- Neighbour consultation start
- 28 October 2025
- Neighbour consultation end
- 18 November 2025
- Last date for comments
- 15 December 2025
- Target decision date
- 16 December 2025
Applicant and agent
- Applicant
- Private applicant
- Agent
- A. Maan Architectural Services Ltd
- Agent address
- 9 Farnburn Avenue Slough SL1 4XU
Planning decision
- Case officer
- Madeline Mead
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Publicity
- Last advertised
- 6 November 2025
- Advertisement expiry
- 20 November 2025
- Site notice start
- 24 November 2025
- Site notice end
- 15 December 2025
Additional information
- Planning Portal ID
- PP-14366180
- Documents
- 8
- Constraints
- 6
Site constraints
Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.
- Conservation area: Rainham
- Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (22)
flood storage 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, 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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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.
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This applicationApprovedFullMC/25/1988
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