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Rear Of 18 Luton Road Luton Chatham Medway ME4 5AA

MC/25/2136Full ApplicationApproved
Full

Approved on 3 December 2025

Council decision: Approval with Conditions2 conditions

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

Proposal

Construction of a single-storey garage and storage space facilities (Demolition of the existing garage/storage unit)

Received
29 October 2025
Public comments
2
Ward
Luton
Agent
Sanaa Designs
  1. Received29 Oct
  2. Validated29 Oct
  3. Consult.2 Dec
  4. Target24 Dec
  5. Decided3 Dec

Decided in 35 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for demolition at Rear Of 18 Luton Road Luton Chatham Medway ME4 5AA. Medway has handled 2,531 applications of this type. This one was decided in 35 days, 3 weeks quicker than Medway's typical decision time. The site is in 1 listed building nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 34 applications across Luton. We hold 450 applications in total for the ME4 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
ME4 5AA
Application type
Full Application
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
29 October 2025
Consultation expiry
2 December 2025
Consultation start
7 November 2025
Consultation end
2 December 2025
Neighbour consultation start
11 November 2025
Neighbour consultation end
2 December 2025
Last date for comments
2 December 2025
Target decision date
24 December 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent
Sanaa Designs
Agent address
18 Grenadier Close Rainham ME8 8NQ

Planning decision

Case officer
Arron Nicholls
Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Site notice start
10 November 2025
Site notice end
1 December 2025

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14449604
Documents
12

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

  • Article 4 direction: Luton
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (23)

flood storage areas, conservation 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.

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.

Associated applications

  1. 2025
    24 Dec

    Details pursuant to condition 2 (Materials to be submitted) on planning permission MC/25/2136

    Discharge of ConditionsDischarge of conditionsMC/25/2533
  2. 2025
    29 Oct

    Construction of a single-storey garage and storage space facilities (Demolition of the existing…

    This applicationApprovedFullMC/25/2136

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