179-181 Maidstone Road Rochester Medway ME1 1SF
Approved on 20 April 2026
Council decision: Discharge of ConditionsDelegated (officer decision)
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Proposal
Details pursuant to conditions 1 (Time), 3 (Joinery Details), 4 (Materials) and 5 (Railings to front) on planning permission MC/25/1791 - Part retrospective application for the change of use of retail to residential at lower ground and ground floor level with associated internal and external alterations, together with construction of a three-storey rear extension to provide six 1-bedroom self-contained flats
- Received
- 26 January 2026
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Public comments
- 1
- Council
- Medway Council
- Ward
- Rochester East & Warren Wood
- Agent
- Anthony Swaine Architecture Ltd
- ReceivedReceived26 Jan
- ValidatedValidated26 Jan
- Consult.Consultation17 Feb
- TargetTarget Date20 Apr
- DecidedDecided20 Apr
Decided in 84 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is an application to discharge conditions at 179-181 Maidstone Road Rochester Medway ME1 1SF. Medway has handled 623 applications of this type. This one was decided in 84 days, 4 weeks longer than Medway's typical decision time. The site is in the Watts Avenue and Roebuck Road conservation area, with 2 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 47 applications across Rochester East & Warren Wood. We hold 340 applications in total for the ME1 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
- ME1 1SF
- Application type
- Discharge Condition
- Scale / size
- Medium
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 26 January 2026
- Consultation expiry
- 17 February 2026
- Consultation start
- 27 January 2026
- Consultation end
- 17 February 2026
- Last date for comments
- 17 February 2026
- Target decision date
- 20 April 2026
- Permission expires
- 20 April 2031
Applicant and agent
- Applicant
- Private applicant
- Agent
- Anthony Swaine Architecture Ltd
- Architect profile
- ANTHONY SWAINE ARCHITECTURE LIMITED
- Agent address
- The Bastion Tower 16 Pound Lane Canterbury CT1 2BZ
Planning decision
- Case officer
- Amy Shardlow
- Statutory period
- 84 days
Additional information
- Planning Portal ID
- PP-14646471
- Documents
- 13
- Constraints
- 4
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- 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.
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© 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.
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