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First Floor 74 High Street Chatham Medway ME4 4DS

MC/26/0363App for Non-Material AmendmentsApproved
Discharge / amendments

Approved on 12 March 2026

Council decision: Approval with ConditionsDelegated (officer decision)2 conditions

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Application for a non-material amendment for the change of description of application MC/22/0514 to - Construction of a mezzanine second floor, rooftop and rear extension to existing three and two storey building with basement. Commercial use is retained on the basement and ground floor, and changed on the first, second, and third floor to provide six flats together with a new shopfront and replacement windows to the front - demolition of existing roof. This application also includes the extension of extraction duct associated with 72 High Street Chatham.

Received
24 February 2026
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Fort Pitt
Agent
philip holley architects
  1. Received24 Feb
  2. Validated24 Feb
  3. Consult.
  4. Target24 Mar
  5. Decided12 Mar

Decided in 16 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at First Floor 74 High Street Chatham Medway ME4 4DS. Medway has handled 235 applications of this type. This one was decided in 16 days, 6 weeks quicker than Medway's typical decision time. The site is in the Star Hill to Sun Pier conservation area, with 1 listed building nearby. There has been 1 other application 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.

94% of amendment 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 4DS
Application type
App for Non-Material Amendments
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
24 February 2026
Target decision date
24 March 2026
Permission expires
12 March 2031

Applicant and agent

Applicant
Private applicant
Agent
philip holley architects
Agent address
1A Manor Road Tunbridge Wells TN4 0LD United Kingdom

Planning decision

Case officer
Tom Stubbs
Statutory period
28 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14731997
Comments
0
Documents
5
Constraints
5

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Star Hill to Sun Pier
  • 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.

© 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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