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8 Berengrave Lane Rainham Gillingham Medway ME8 7LS

MC/26/0653Certificate of Proposed UseApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 5 May 2026

Council decision: Approval

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

Proposal

Application for a Lawful Development Certificate (proposed) for conversion of garage into habitable room

Received
7 April 2026
Ward
Rainham North
  1. Received7 Apr
  2. Validated7 Apr
  3. Consult.
  4. Target2 Jun
  5. Decided5 May

Decided in 28 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for a garage at 8 Berengrave Lane Rainham Gillingham Medway ME8 7LS. Medway has handled 618 applications of this type. This one was decided in 28 days, 4 weeks quicker than Medway's typical decision time. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 80 applications across Rainham North. We hold 802 applications in total for the ME8 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
ME8 7LS
Application type
Certificate of Proposed Use
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Not Available

Planning application dates

Date validated
7 April 2026
Target decision date
2 June 2026

Applicant and agent

Applicant
Private applicant
Agent address
29 Spenlow Drive Chatham ME5 9JT

Planning decision

Case officer
Layla Cheshire
Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14836695
Comments
0
Documents
6
Constraints
2

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

  • 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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