Durland House 160 High Street Rainham Gillingham Medway ME8 8AT

MC/25/2457App for Non-Material AmendmentsApproved

Discharge / amendments

Approved on 13 January 2026

Council decision: Approval with ConditionsDelegated (officer decision)2 conditions

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

Proposal

Application for a non-material amendment to planning permission MC/22/2814 for change of description from change of use from residential care home (Class C2) to 5 assisted living units to change of use from residential care home (Class C2) to 5 x C3 use class units

Received: 16 December 2025
Decision level: Delegated (officer decision)
Council: Medway Council
Ward: Rainham South West

ReceivedReceived16 Dec
ValidatedValidated16 Dec
Consult.Consultation
TargetTarget Date13 Jan
DecidedDecided13 Jan

Decided in 28 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at Durland House 160 High Street Rainham Gillingham Medway ME8 8AT. Medway has handled 235 applications of this type. This one was decided in 28 days, 4 weeks quicker than Medway's typical decision time. The site is in the Rainham conservation area, with 2 listed buildings nearby. There have been 7 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 64 applications across Rainham South West. We hold 802 applications in total for the ME8 postcode area.

94% of amendment 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: ME8 8AT
Application type: App for Non-Material Amendments
Scale / size: Small

Planning application dates

Date validated: 16 December 2025
Target decision date: 13 January 2026
Permission expires: 13 January 2031

Planning decision

Statutory period: 28 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID: PP-14568026
Comments: 0
Documents: 4
Constraints: 7

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: Rainham
Listed building: Grade II: 174, High StreetOn or next to this site
Heritage at Risk Register: Rainham
Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

Also checked, none recorded (21)

flood storage areas, Article 4 directions, 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.

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

2025
16 Dec
Application for a non-material amendment to planning permission MC/22/2814
This applicationApproval with ConditionsNon-material amendmentMC/25/2457
2025
16 Dec
Application for a non-material amendment to planning permission MC/25/1086
Approval with ConditionsNon-material amendmentFiled alongsideMC/25/2458

Planning history at this site

6 other applications at this property, newest first.

Source: Medway

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