77 St Margarets Street Rochester Medway ME1 3BJ
Approved on 10 February 2026
Council decision: Approval with ConditionsDelegated (officer decision)7 conditions
Proposal
Part retrospective application for demolition of former garage and mews and construction of a detached house with associated parking
- Received
- 5 December 2025
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Public comments
- 3
- Council
- Medway Council
- Ward
- Rochester West & Borstal
- Agent
- Woodstock Associates
- ReceivedReceived5 Dec
- ValidatedValidated9 Dec
- Consult.Consultation8 Jan
- TargetTarget Date11 Feb
- DecidedDecided10 Feb
Decided in 63 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is a full planning application for demolition at 77 St Margarets Street Rochester Medway ME1 3BJ. Medway has handled 2,531 applications of this type. This one was decided in 67 days, 11 days longer than Medway's typical decision time. The site is in the Watts Avenue and Roebuck Road conservation area, with 1 listed building nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 131 applications across Rochester West & Borstal. We hold 340 applications in total for the ME1 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
- ME1 3BJ
- Application type
- Full Application
- Scale / size
- Medium
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 9 December 2025
- Consultation expiry
- 3 February 2026
- Consultation start
- 15 December 2025
- Consultation end
- 8 January 2026
- Neighbour consultation start
- 16 December 2025
- Neighbour consultation end
- 9 January 2026
- Last date for comments
- 3 February 2026
- Target decision date
- 11 February 2026
- Permission expires
- 10 February 2029
Applicant and agent
- Agent
- Woodstock Associates
- Architect profile
- WOODSTOCK DESIGN ASSOCIATES LTD
- Agent address
- 53 Woodstock Road Sittingbourne ME10 4HJ
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 64 days
Publicity
- Last advertised
- 28 December 2025
- Advertisement expiry
- 11 January 2026
- Site notice start
- 13 January 2026
- Site notice end
- 3 February 2026
Additional information
- Planning Portal ID
- PP-14542520
- Documents
- 38
- Constraints
- 4
Site constraints
Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.
- Conservation area: Watts Avenue/Roebuck Road
- Article 4 direction: Watts Avenue
- 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.
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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