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University College For The Creative Arts Fort Pitt Hill Chatham Medway ME1 1DZ

MC/26/1838Approved
Discharge / amendments

Approved on 8 October 2026

Council decision: Approval with Conditions1 condition

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

Proposal

Application for a Non Material amendment on planning application MC/25/0204 for Amend the approved phasing plan to alter the phasing across the development. The Applicant now intends on delivering the upper block (Ground level to upper fourth floor) of the development in Phase 1, with the middle and lower blocks (lower first to lower fourth levels) to be delivered in Phase 2.

Received
23 September 2026
Public comments
0 · last counted 4 November 2026
Ward
Fort Pitt
  1. Received23 Sep
  2. Validated23 Sep
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided8 Oct

Decided in 15 days

About this application

This is a planning application at University College For The Creative Arts Fort Pitt Hill Chatham Medway ME1 1DZ. Medway has handled 5,390 applications of this type. This one was decided in 15 days, 6 weeks quicker than Medway's typical decision time. The site is in the New Road Rochester conservation area, with 1 listed building nearby. There has been 1 other application 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.

Application details

Postcode
ME1 1DZ
Parish
Not Available

Planning application dates

Date validated
23 September 2026

Applicant and agent

Applicant
Private applicant

Planning decision

Case officer
Madeline Mead

Additional information

Documents
4

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: New Road, Rochester
  • Article 4 direction: Fort Pitt
  • Scheduled monument: Fort Pitt
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (21)

flood storage areas, listed buildings, tree preservation orders, green belt, 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.

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