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Medway Council Planning Applications

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467Applications (90 days)
24Major applications
91%Approval rate
55 daysMedian decision time
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MC/26/1642Householder£10k–50k

19 Samphire Way St Marys Island Chatham Medway ME4 3SA

Retrospective - Construction of a wooden pergola to rear, installation of bi-fold doors. New windows, paving to front and rear gardens,

Pending
MC/26/1634Other

Ballard Business Park Cuxton Road Strood Rochester Medway ME2 2NY

Replacement of a free standing Externally Illuminated Advertising Display with a Digital LED Advertising Display which is internally illuminated

Pending
MC/26/1599Householder<£10k

St Andrews School 28 Watts Avenue Rochester Medway ME1 1SA

Installation of a replacement of a fan light basement window within No. 28 Watts Avenue with louvres to provide additional ventilation to the basement school hall.

Pending
MC/26/1635Householder£50k–100k

40 King Arthurs Drive Strood Rochester Medway ME2 3NB

Construction of a single storey rear extension (demolition of conservatory).

Pending
MC/26/1633Other

Land South Of Lower Rainham Road Rainham Gillingham Medway ME8 7UD

Details pursuant to condition 26 (remediation implementation) on planning permission MC/18/1796 - Outline planning application (all matters reserved except access) for the development of up to 202 res

Pending
MC/26/1628Other

Land North Of Moor Street And East Of Otterham Quay Lane Westmoor Farm Moor Street Rainham Gillingham Medway ME8 8QF

Details pursuant to condition 3 (provide tree protection fencing) on planning application MC/25/0614 - Development of 39 residential dwellings, together with open space, landscaping, drainage, access,

Pending
MC/26/1630Other

Saint John Fisher School 79 Maidstone Road Chatham Medway

Details pursuant to condition 16 (Travel Plan) on planning permission MC/25/0753 for (Demolition of existing buildings and structures and construction of a new food retail store (Use Class E(a)), with

Pending
MC/26/1535Infrastructure£100k–500k

Rochester Old Bridge Rochester Bridge Rochester Medway ME1 1QE

Replacement of the deck to the lower Pier platforms oncluding installation of decking and repair and or replace the handrails and steel works as neessary

Pending
MC/26/1622Householder£50k–100k

163 Maidstone Road Rochester Medway ME1 1SF

Listed building consent to rebuild the parapet on the front elevation in vertical alignment to reverse a significant inward lean.

Pending
TPA/26/1452Other

72 Chestnut Avenue Walderslade Chatham Medway ME5 9BD

T1 Oak - Overall crown reduction of 30-40% with a ground clearance of 5m and a height reduction frm 60ft to 40ft the revised width would be within the property boundaries at 43ft

Pending
MC/26/1626Householder£10k–50k

3 Aveling Close Hoo St Werburgh Rochester Medway ME3 9BZ

Construction of a single storey rear extension, including the demolition of the existing rear extension

Pending
MC/26/1625Householder

8 Abbey Road Gillingham ME8 6AP

Variation of condition 2, and 3 on MC/22/1567 /Appeal Ref: APP/A2280/D/22/3305549 for the uPVC panel to the flank elevation adjoining the attached neighbour constructed in facing brickwork to comply w

Pending
MC/26/1624Other

62 New Road Chatham Medway ME4 4QR

Details pursuant to condition 3 (Materials) and 4 (Cycle Storage) on planning permission MC/26/0414 for change of Use of Ground Floor from Hairdresser Class (E) to a Self-contained 1 Bedroom Flat Clas

Pending
MC/26/1615Other

11 Byron Road Gillingham Medway ME7 5XX

Application for a Lawful Development Certificate (Existing) for the existing residential use of the property in use as a House in Multiple Occupation (Use Class C4), comprising of up to six individual

Pending
MC/26/1613Residential£500k–1m

Cooling Court Farm Cooling Court Cooling Rochester Medway ME3 8DF

Change of use of the Grade II listed barn into 2No. dwellings, with amenity curtilage, parking and landscaping.

Pending

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Planning appeals in Medway Council

When Medway Council refuses an application, or does not decide it in time, the applicant can appeal to the Planning Inspectorate. An appeal that is allowed is one the council lost. Raw rates are not comparable between councils, because some kinds of appeal are allowed far more often than others, so the Inspectorate's national rate for each kind is applied to this council's own caseload to give the rate its mix predicts.

Medway Council, raw rate

31.1%

of judged appeals were allowed, so the council's decision did not stand

Expected for this mix of appeals

29.1%

what the national rate for each kind of appeal predicts for this council's caseload

2 percentage points above expected. Medway Council's decisions are overturned more often than the national record for the same kinds of appeal predicts for its caseload.

568 appeals counted, 533 judged either way (166 allowed, 367 dismissed), 35 judged neither way. These are appeals decided 2016-07 to 2026-06.

By kind of appeal

Each kind of appeal against the national rate for the same kind. This is the comparison the headline is built from.

Medway Council appeal outcomes by appeal type, with the national rate for each type
Appeal typeCasesJudgedAllowedThis councilNational
Planning Appeal3343219930.8%28.8%
Householder (HAS)1281264132.5%35.6%
Enforcement Notice64461328.3%13.5%
Commercial Appeal Service (CAS)1515426.7%33.3%
Tree Preservation Order1413430.8%20.6%
Lawful Development Certificate77342.9%36.9%
Advertisement Appeal332Too few judged36%
Appeal against Enforcement Listed Building Notice/Enforcement Conservation Area Notice220Too few judged8.1%
Listed Building Consent & Conservation Area Consent Appeal100None judged25%

“Judged” counts appeals allowed or dismissed. The rest were withdrawn, invalid, split or unrecorded, and are counted but never treated as appeals the council won. A percentage is published only where at least 5 appeals were judged either way. Where it is not, the counts still are: a rate over one or two cases would claim a precision the sample cannot carry.

Source: the Planning Inspectorate's Casework Database, published quarterly on GOV.UK. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. These figures are the Inspectorate's appeal record, not the council's own planning register.

Money behind development in Medway Council

Developer contributions at Medway Council

Medway Council collects contributions from developers under planning obligations, but we do not yet hold its register in a form we can publish figures from. Only a minority of authorities publish one we can read, and this is not one of them, so we show nothing rather than a figure we cannot stand behind.

Affordable housing grant in Medway Council

Beside what the council collected from developers, this is what central government confirmed: schemes in the area with grant agreed under the Homes England Affordable Homes Programme 2021 to 2026.

8
Confirmed schemes
113
Homes
£7,042,968
Grant requested
  • Social rent6 homes
  • Affordable rent86 homes
  • Shared ownership21 homes

Source: Homes England, schemes confirmed under the Affordable Homes Programme 2021 to 2026, published on GOV.UK as transparency data. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Figures are as at 31 March 2025, the publication's own cut-off, so later schemes are not in them. Grant requested is the publisher's own figure at the point grant was confirmed, not money drawn down. Schemes are placed by the local authority name in the publication, which carries no planning reference.

About Medway Council

Medway Council is a local planning authority responsible for processing planning applications within its area. Applications are submitted through the council's planning portal and cover a wide range of development types, from householder extensions and change of use to large-scale residential and commercial schemes.

SiteLens tracks the Medway Council planning register daily and enriches every new application automatically. Each is AI-classified by category and trade, given an estimated value band and a plain-English project brief, mapped, and checked against constraint flags like flood zones, conservation areas and green belt. Where an application names an agent, SiteLens shows the firm and matches companies to Companies House. Pro adds the applicant's name, the directors and company health behind each match, and the agent's direct email and phone where the council or firm publishes them, so you know who to speak to about the scheme.

You can also browse the council's own planning register on the official Medway Council planning portal.

Medway Council approval rates by application type

Share of decided applications approved in the last 12 months. A guide, not a guarantee.

  • householder92% (390 decided)
  • other91% (100 decided)
  • residential81% (91 decided)
  • commercial94% (51 decided)

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