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1 Esplanade And Senlac House And Gundulph Square Rochester Medway ME1 1QE

MC/26/0637Discharge ConditionApproved
Discharge / amendments

Approved on 19 May 2026

Council decision: Discharge of Conditions

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

Proposal

Details pursuant to conditions 4 (General internal works), 5 (General internal joinery), 6 (Door for Senlac House), 7 (Roof light for Senlac House), 8 (Plant and Roof enclosure), 9 (Secondary Glazing), 10 (Stairs to Basement in esplanade), 11 (Gates to esplanade), 12 (Historic features to remain), 13 (Historical Frame) and 14 (Lath and plaster) on planning permission MC/23/2836 for Listed Building application to facilitate a change of use in No 1 Esplanade and Senlac House from mixed use (residential and commercial) Class C (3) and E to commercial use class E (g)(i); Refurbishment of No 1 Esplanade and Senlac House, together with the reconfiguration and rebuilding of a cluster of intermittent buildings in order to create new offices and various internal refurbishments to both sites. Various refurbishments to Gundulph Square

Received
1 April 2026
Ward
Rochester West & Borstal
Agent
Baynes and Mitchell Architects
  1. Received1 Apr
  2. Validated1 Apr
  3. Consult.30 Apr
  4. Target27 May
  5. Decided19 May

Decided in 48 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to discharge conditions at 1 Esplanade And Senlac House And Gundulph Square Rochester Medway ME1 1QE. Medway has handled 623 applications of this type. This one was decided in 48 days, 8 days quicker than Medway's typical decision time. The site is in the Historic Rochester conservation area, with 19 listed buildings nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 131 applications across Rochester West & Borstal. We hold 340 applications in total for the ME1 postcode area.

97% of conditions 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
ME1 1QE
Application type
Discharge Condition
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Not Available

Planning application dates

Date validated
1 April 2026
Consultation expiry
30 April 2026
Consultation start
9 April 2026
Consultation end
30 April 2026
Last date for comments
30 April 2026
Target decision date
27 May 2026

Applicant and agent

Applicant
Private applicant
Agent
Baynes and Mitchell Architects
Architect profile
BAYNES AND MITCHELL ARCHITECTS LIMITED
Agent address
27 Poland Street Fourth Floor London W1F 8QP

Planning decision

Case officer
Sam Pilbeam
Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14827385
Comments
0
Documents
45

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

  • Conservation area: Historic Rochester
  • Listed building: Grade II: No 1 Including RailingsOn or next to this site · +2 more
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (22)

flood storage areas, 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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