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Doctors Surgery 7 Railway Street Gillingham Medway ME7 1XG

MC/25/2120Commercial to ResidentialApproved
Prior approval

Approved on 12 December 2025

Council decision: Prior Approval Required - Approved3 conditions

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

Proposal

Prior notification for a proposed change of use from a Doctors Surgery (use class E) to 2 residential studio flats (use class C3)

Received
28 October 2025
Public comments
1
Ward
Gillingham South
Agent
Insight Architects
  1. Received28 Oct
  2. Validated28 Oct
  3. Consult.24 Nov
  4. Target23 Dec
  5. Decided12 Dec

Decided in 45 days

About this application

This is a planning application for a change of use at Doctors Surgery 7 Railway Street Gillingham Medway ME7 1XG. Medway has handled 5,390 applications of this type. This one was decided in 45 days, 11 days quicker than Medway's typical decision time. The site is in the Railway Street conservation area. There have been 6 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 149 applications across Gillingham South. We hold 1,825 applications in total for the ME7 postcode area.

Application details

Postcode
ME7 1XG
Application type
Commercial to Residential
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
28 October 2025
Consultation expiry
24 November 2025
Consultation start
31 October 2025
Consultation end
24 November 2025
Neighbour consultation start
3 November 2025
Neighbour consultation end
24 November 2025
Last date for comments
24 November 2025
Target decision date
23 December 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent
Insight Architects
Agent address
The Joiners Shop The Historic Dockyard Chatham ME4 4TZ

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Last advertised
6 November 2025
Advertisement expiry
20 November 2025

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14436945
Documents
3
Constraints
3

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

  • Conservation area: Railway Street, Gillingham
  • Article 4 direction: Gillingham South
  • Heritage at Risk Register: Railway Street
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (21)

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, 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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