Land To The Left Eternal Lake Nature Reserve, South Of Higham Road And East Of Buckland Road Buckland Road Cliffe Rochester Medway ME3 7RT
Refused on 7 September 2026
Council decision: Refusal
Proposal
Outline application with some matters reserved (appearance, landscaping, layout and scale) for construction of up to 100 residential dwellings including affordable housing with provision of vehicular, pedestrian and cycle access from Higham Road, public open spaces, sustainable urban drainage systems, landscaping, infrastructure and earthworks
- Received
- 5 February 2026
- Public comments
- 123
- Council
- Medway Council
- Ward
- Strood Rural
- ReceivedReceived5 Feb
- ValidatedValidated5 Feb
- Consult.Consultation2 Mar
- TargetTarget Date7 May
- DecidedDecided7 Sep
Decided in 214 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is an outline application at Land To The Left Eternal Lake Nature Reserve, South Of Higham Road And East Of Buckland Road Buckland Road Cliffe Rochester Medway ME3 7RT. Medway has handled 618 applications of this type. This one was decided in 214 days, 23 weeks longer than Medway's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 109 applications across Strood Rural. We hold 1,082 applications in total for the ME3 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
- ME3 7RT
- Application type
- Outline Application
- Scale / size
- Large
- Number of dwellings
- 100
- Parish
- Cliffe And Cliffe Woods
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 5 February 2026
- Consultation expiry
- 5 March 2026
- Consultation start
- 9 February 2026
- Consultation end
- 2 March 2026
- Neighbour consultation start
- 12 February 2026
- Neighbour consultation end
- 5 March 2026
- Last date for comments
- 5 March 2026
- Target decision date
- 7 May 2026
Applicant and agent
- Applicant
- Private applicant
- Agent
- Marrons
- Agent address
- Lonsdale Gate Business Centre Lonsdale Gardens Tunbridge Wells Kent TN11NU
Planning decision
- Case officer
- Hannah Gunner
- Statutory period
- 91 days
Publicity
- Last advertised
- 19 February 2026
- Advertisement expiry
- 5 March 2026
Additional information
- Planning Portal ID
- PP-14628339
- Documents
- 78
- Constraints
- 7
Site constraints
Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.
- Flood zone 2: Medium probability (rivers and sea)
- SSSI: South Thames Estuary and Marshes SSSI+1 more
- Special Protection Area: Thames Estuary & Marshes
- Ramsar wetland: Thames Estuary & Marshes
Also checked, none recorded (21)
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, Special Areas of Conservation, 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.
Source: Medway
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