Kingsnorth Power Station Power Station Access Road Hoo St Werburgh Rochester Medway ME3 9NQ

MC/26/1275Approval of Reserved MattersAwaiting decision

Discharge / amendments

Proposal

Reserved matters application to consider matters of (appearance, layout, landscaping and scale) together with details to seek discharge of conditions 11 (Materials), 12 (Brick plinth), 13 (Hard and Soft landscaping), 14 (Tree survey), 15 (Landscape management plan), 16 (Boundary treatment), 17 (Landscape and Ecological management plan), 27 (Cycle storage), 29 (Refuse storage), 30 (Layout), 31 (Vehicle parking management plan), 38 (Ventilation and extraction) and 40 (Climate change and Energy efficiency statement) pursuant to outline permission MC/21/0979 - Construction of flexible EG (iii)/B2/B8 use class buildings, sui generis uses for energy uses and a lorry park, together with servicing, parking, landscaping, drainage, remediation, demolition and earthworks

Received: 3 July 2026
Decision due: 2 October 2026
Public comments: 2 · last counted 10 October 2026
Council: Medway Council
Ward: Hoo St Werburgh & High Halstow

ReceivedReceived3 Jul
ValidatedValidated3 Jul
Consult.Consultation
TargetTarget Date2 Oct
DecidedDecided

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About this application

This is an outline application for demolition at Kingsnorth Power Station Power Station Access Road Hoo St Werburgh Rochester Medway ME3 9NQ. Medway has handled 618 applications of this type. It has been with the council since 3 July 2026 and is still awaiting a decision. There have been 7 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 82 applications across Hoo St Werburgh & High Halstow. We hold 1,082 applications in total for the ME3 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: ME3 9NQ
Application type: Approval of Reserved Matters
Scale / size: Medium
Parish: Hoo St. Werburgh

Planning application dates

Date validated: 3 July 2026

Applicant and agent

Applicant: Private applicant

Planning decision

Case officer: Planning Consultant
Statutory period: 91 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID: PP-15029013
Documents: 51
Constraints: 25

Site constraints

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Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

Flood zone 3: High 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.

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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.

Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

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