St John Fisher School 79 Maidstone Road Chatham Medway ME4 6DP

MC/26/0074Discharge ConditionApproved

Discharge / amendments

Approved on 10 March 2026

Council decision: Discharge of ConditionsDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Details pursuant to condition 7 (method statement wall demolition) on planning permission MC/25/0753 for demolition of existing buildings and structures and construction of a new food retail store (Use Class E(a)), with access, car and cycle parking, landscaping and associated works

Received: 19 January 2026
Decision level: Delegated (officer decision)
Council: Medway Council
Ward: Fort Pitt
Agent: The Harris Partnership

ReceivedReceived19 Jan
ValidatedValidated19 Jan
Consult.Consultation10 Feb
TargetTarget Date16 Mar
DecidedDecided10 Mar

Decided in 50 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to discharge conditions at St John Fisher School 79 Maidstone Road Chatham Medway ME4 6DP. Medway has handled 623 applications of this type. This one was decided in 50 days, 6 days quicker than Medway's typical decision time. The site is in the Maidstone Road Chatham conservation area. There have been 14 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 108 applications across Fort Pitt. We hold 450 applications in total for the ME4 postcode area.

97% of conditions 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 6DP
Application type: Discharge Condition
Scale / size: Small

Planning application dates

Date validated: 19 January 2026
Consultation expiry: 10 February 2026
Consultation start: 20 January 2026
Consultation end: 10 February 2026
Last date for comments: 10 February 2026
Target decision date: 16 March 2026
Permission expires: 10 March 2031

Applicant and agent

Agent: The Harris Partnership
Agent address: The Old Rectory 79 High Street Newport Pagnell MK16 8AB

Planning decision

Statutory period: 56 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID: PP-14617619
Comments: 0
Documents: 5
Constraints: 6

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: Maidstone Road, Chatham
Article 4 direction: Fort Pitt+1 more
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.

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

2026
19 Jan
Details pursuant to condition 4 (CEMP for ecology) on planning permission MC/25/0753
Discharge of ConditionsDischarge of conditionsFiled alongsideMC/26/0073
2026
19 Jan
Details pursuant to condition 7 (method statement wall demolition) on planning permission MC/25/0753
This applicationDischarge of ConditionsDischarge of conditionsMC/26/0074

Planning history at this site

13 other applications at this property, newest first.

Source: Medway

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