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Land Adjacent To 2 Temple Gardens Strood Rochester Medway ME2 2NG

MC/25/2536Full ApplicationRefused
Full

Refused on 22 May 2026

Council decision: RefusalDelegated (officer decision)1 condition

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

Proposal

Construction of a detached dwelling with associated access, parking and hard and soft landscaping

Received
29 December 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
11
Ward
Strood West
  1. Received29 Dec
  2. Validated2 Jan
  3. Consult.21 May
  4. Target25 May
  5. Decided22 May

Decided in 140 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application at Land Adjacent To 2 Temple Gardens Strood Rochester Medway ME2 2NG. Medway has handled 2,531 applications of this type. This one was decided in 144 days, 13 weeks longer than Medway's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 34 applications across Strood West. We hold 916 applications in total for the ME2 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
ME2 2NG
Application type
Full Application
Scale / size
Medium

Planning application dates

Date validated
2 January 2026
Consultation expiry
22 May 2026
Consultation start
29 April 2026
Consultation end
21 May 2026
Neighbour consultation start
30 April 2026
Neighbour consultation end
22 May 2026
Last date for comments
22 May 2026
Target decision date
25 May 2026

Planning decision

Statutory period
143 days

Publicity

Site notice start
22 January 2026
Site notice end
12 February 2026

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14591398
Documents
16
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.

  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (24)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, Article 4 directions, 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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