33 Balmoral Road Gillingham Medway ME7 4QB
Approved on 9 April 2026
Council decision: Prior Approval Required - ApprovedDelegated (officer decision)3 conditions
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Proposal
Prior notification for the proposed change of use from an office building (Class B1a/E) to a dwelling house (Class C3) to provide one 2-bedroom flat on first and second floors, and 1- bedroom flat on the ground floor basement.
- Received
- 11 February 2026
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- Medway Council
- Ward
- Gillingham South
- Agent
- Cyma Architects Ltd
- ReceivedReceived11 Feb
- ValidatedValidated13 Feb
- Consult.Consultation10 Mar
- TargetTarget Date10 Apr
- DecidedDecided9 Apr
Decided in 55 days
About this application
This is a planning application for a change of use at 33 Balmoral Road Gillingham Medway ME7 4QB. Medway has handled 5,390 applications of this type. This one was decided in 57 days. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 149 applications across Gillingham South. We hold 1,825 applications in total for the ME7 postcode area.
Application details
- Postcode
- ME7 4QB
- Application type
- Commercial to Residential
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Not Available
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 13 February 2026
- Consultation expiry
- 31 March 2026
- Neighbour consultation start
- 17 February 2026
- Neighbour consultation end
- 10 March 2026
- Last date for comments
- 31 March 2026
- Target decision date
- 10 April 2026
- Permission expires
- 9 April 2031
Applicant and agent
- Applicant
- Private applicant
- Agent
- Cyma Architects Ltd
- Agent address
- 55 The Old High Street Folkestone CT20 1RN
Planning decision
- Case officer
- Amy Shardlow
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Publicity
- Site notice start
- 10 March 2026
- Site notice end
- 31 March 2026
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Article 4 direction: Gillingham South
- Brownfield land register: Land at 1-3 Connaught Road GillinghamRegister site at or near this address
- Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (22)
flood storage areas, conservation 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 and heritage coasts.
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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Planning history at this site
2 other applications at this property, newest first.
- 202615 Jul
Prior Notification for the proposed change of use from Commercial (Class E) to Dwellinghouse (Class C3) to…
ApprovedApplicationMC/26/1329 - 202617 Jun
Prior Notification for the proposed change of use from a office building (Class E) to a dwelling House (Class…
ApprovedOffice to residentialMC/26/1152
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