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23 Leigh Road Wainscott Rochester Medway ME3 8NU

MC/25/2016Certificate of Proposed UseApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 24 October 2025

Council decision: Approval

Approximate location: the centre of the postcode, not the exact property.

Proposal

Application for a Lawful Development Certificate (Proposed) for the construction of a single storey infill extension to side/rear along with changing the existing patio doors to window

Received
7 October 2025
Ward
Strood Rural
Agent
Synergy Planning & Property Consultants Ltd
  1. Received7 Oct
  2. Validated8 Oct
  3. Consult.
  4. Target3 Dec
  5. Decided24 Oct

Decided in 16 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for an extension at 23 Leigh Road Wainscott Rochester Medway ME3 8NU. Medway has handled 618 applications of this type. This one was decided in 17 days, 6 weeks quicker than Medway's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 111 applications across Strood Rural. We hold 1,082 applications in total for the ME3 postcode area.

89% of outline 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 8NU
Application type
Certificate of Proposed Use
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Frindsbury Extra

Planning application dates

Date validated
8 October 2025
Target decision date
3 December 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent
Synergy Planning & Property Consultants Ltd
Agent address
Synergy The Office The Larches Higham Rochester ME3 7NQ

Planning decision

Case officer
Lindsey Woodhouse-Pratt
Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14218074
Comments
0
Documents
7
Constraints
4

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

  • 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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