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36 Benenden Road Wainscott Rochester Medway ME2 4NX

MC/26/0296Certificate of Proposed UseApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 31 March 2026

Council decision: ApprovalDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Application for a Lawful Development Certificate (Proposed) to convert the existing front garden into a driveway to provide off-street parking along with associated engineering works.

Received
17 February 2026
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
1
Ward
Strood Rural
  1. Received17 Feb
  2. Validated27 Feb
  3. Consult.
  4. Target24 Apr
  5. Decided31 Mar

Decided in 32 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application at 36 Benenden Road Wainscott Rochester Medway ME2 4NX. Medway has handled 618 applications of this type. This one was decided in 42 days, 2 weeks quicker than Medway's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 111 applications across Strood Rural. We hold 916 applications in total for the ME2 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
ME2 4NX
Application type
Certificate of Proposed Use
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Frindsbury Extra

Planning application dates

Date validated
27 February 2026
Target decision date
24 April 2026
Permission expires
31 March 2029

Applicant and agent

Applicant
Private applicant

Planning decision

Case officer
Lindsey Woodhouse-Pratt
Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14711393
Documents
6
Constraints
4

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • 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.

Source: Medway

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