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70 Richmond Road Gillingham Medway ME7 1LR

MC/25/2446Certificate of Proposed UseApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 5 February 2026

Council decision: ApprovalDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Application for a Lawful Development Certificate (Proposed) for the Change of Use from Class (C3) single dwelling house to Class (C4) up to 6 bed 6 person HMO. Changes to flank elevation at rear to replace two windows with one at ground floor level .

Received
15 December 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Gillingham North
Agent
KLE Design Limited
  1. Received15 Dec
  2. Validated15 Dec
  3. Consult.
  4. Target9 Feb
  5. Decided5 Feb

Decided in 52 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for a change of use at 70 Richmond Road Gillingham Medway ME7 1LR. Medway has handled 618 applications of this type. This one was decided in 52 days, 4 days quicker than Medway's typical decision time. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 43 applications across Gillingham North. We hold 1,825 applications in total for the ME7 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
ME7 1LR
Application type
Certificate of Proposed Use
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
15 December 2025
Target decision date
9 February 2026
Permission expires
5 February 2029

Applicant and agent

Agent
KLE Design Limited
Architect profile
KLE DESIGN LIMITED
Agent address
23 Bouverie Road Chelmsford CM2 0UD

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14566558
Comments
0
Documents
9
Constraints
3

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Article 4 direction: Gillingham North
  • 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.

Planning history at this site

1 other application at this property, newest first.

  1. 2025
    30 Nov

    Construction of single storey rear extension

    ApprovedHouseholderMC/25/2344

Source: Medway

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