St Bartholomews Hospital New Road Rochester Medway ME1 1DS
Approved on 7 August 2026
Council decision: Approval with Conditions2 conditions
Proposal
Proposal to amend the planning permission description of development to read as Part demolition of the existing buildings, construction of new buildings and conversion of the former St Bartholomew's Hospital to provide residential units together with associated car parking, cycle parking, hard and soft landscaping, tree removal, boundary treatment, access, utilities and other associated works, restoration, part demolition and conversion of the Grade II listed mortuary to provide 88 sqm community space Class (D1/D2) (as amended by: MC/20/3014, MC/21/1449 & MC/21/3541)
- Received
- 17 July 2026
- Council
- Medway Council
- Ward
- Fort Pitt
- ReceivedReceived17 Jul
- ValidatedValidated17 Jul
- Consult.Consultation
- TargetTarget Date14 Aug
- DecidedDecided7 Aug
Decided in 21 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is an application to amend a permission at St Bartholomews Hospital New Road Rochester Medway ME1 1DS. Medway has handled 235 applications of this type. This one was decided in 21 days, 5 weeks quicker than Medway's typical decision time. The site is in the New Road Rochester conservation area, with 5 listed buildings nearby. There have been 2 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 108 applications across Fort Pitt. We hold 340 applications in total for the ME1 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
- ME1 1DS
- Application type
- App for Non-Material Amendments
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Not Available
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 17 July 2026
- Target decision date
- 14 August 2026
Applicant and agent
- Agent address
- Pembroke House 15 Pembroke Road Bristol BS8 3BA
Planning decision
- Case officer
- Chantelle Farrant-Smith
- Statutory period
- 28 days
Additional information
- Planning Portal ID
- PP-15091952
- Comments
- 0
- Documents
- 0
Site constraints
Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.
- Conservation area: New Road, Rochester
- Article 4 direction: Fort Pitt
- 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.
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Planning history at this site
2 other applications at this property, newest first.
- 202611 Sep
Variation of condition Number(s): 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 15 and insertion of new conditions…
PendingVariation of conditions (s73)MC/26/1761 - 202512 Sep
Application for a Non - Materials Amendments on planning permission MC/25/0768
Approval with ConditionsNon-material amendmentMC/25/1824
Source: Medway
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