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30 Commissioners Road Strood Rochester Medway ME2 4EB

MC/26/0565Cert of Lawful Use/Operation - ExistingApproved
Lawful development certificate

Approved on 22 May 2026

Council decision: Approval

Approximate location: the centre of the postcode, not the exact property.

Proposal

Application for Lawful Development Certificate (Existing) to enable childminding to take place as part of the residential use of dwelling

Received
20 March 2026
Ward
Strood North & Frindsbury
Agent
Kingsley Smith Solicitors LLP
  1. Received20 Mar
  2. Validated2 Apr
  3. Consult.
  4. Target28 May
  5. Decided22 May

Decided in 50 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at 30 Commissioners Road Strood Rochester Medway ME2 4EB. Medway has handled 235 applications of this type. This one was decided in 63 days, 7 days longer than Medway's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 98 applications across Strood North & Frindsbury. We hold 916 applications in total for the ME2 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
ME2 4EB
Application type
Cert of Lawful Use/Operation - Existing
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Not Available

Planning application dates

Date validated
2 April 2026
Target decision date
28 May 2026

Applicant and agent

Applicant
Private applicant
Agent
Kingsley Smith Solicitors LLP
Agent address
The Joiners Shop The Historic Dockyard Chatham ME4 4TZ

Planning decision

Case officer
Justin Kazembe
Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14778955
Comments
0
Documents
0
Constraints
3

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

  • Article 4 direction: Strood North & Frindsbury
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (23)

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, 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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