Medway, Planning Applications

TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING ACT 1990

Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
The Town And Country Planning (Environmental Impact Assessment) (England And Wales) Regulations 2017 (as amended)

Medway Council as Local Planning Authority has received the following applications which are being advertised to ascertain the views of persons living near the sites and other interested parties. The proposed developments relate to one or more of the following:

1. The site of the application is within/affecting the setting of a designated
Conservation Area (Section 73) of the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990;
2. The application relates to, or affects the setting of a Listed Building (Section 67) of the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990;
3. The application is for a Major Development;
4. The application would affect a right of way to which Part III of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 (as amended) applies;
7. The site of the application is affecting the setting of an Ancient Monument

MC/25/0204
Reason 3
Reason 1
Reason 7
Reason 4
Former University College For The Creative Arts, Fort Pitt Hill,
Chatham, Medway

Conversion of existing building (Use Class F1(a)) to deliver 102
residential units (Use Class C3), commercial, business and service
accommodation (Class E) and retained education/community
use accommodation (Use Class F1) with associated works in
respect of car parking, landscaping, and external alterations
including new windows and doors and the installation of solar
panels.

MC/25/0245  Durland House, 160 High Street, Rainham, Gillingham
Reason 2
Reason 1

Part retrospective - Listed building consent to amend the layout
of the ground floor with additional wc at 1st floor level and
returning the rooms to their original state by removing the
1980’s interventions and reinstate matching heritage doors
(Amendments to original planning permission MC/22/2815)

MC/25/0262 The Hen And Chicks, 41 Luton High Street, Luton, Chatham
Reason 3

Increase in vacant pub roof height and construction of a
first-floor side extension together with insertion of dormer
windows to both sides of rooftop to facilitate the conversion
of the building into 7 x 1 bed flats, demolition of existing
garages, a single storey extension to existing vacant commercial
building and conversion into 3 x 1 bed flats along with amenity,
landscaping space and provision of cycle parking.

MC/25/0241 Land At 320-346 High Street, Rochester, Medway, ME1 1BT
Reason 3
Reason 1

Demolition of existing buildings and structures retaining 340 and 346 Rochester High Street and construction of twenty-
eight residential dwellings together with the provision of vehicular access, cycle and pedestrian access, public open
space, sustainable drainage systems, landscaping, infrastructure,
earthworks and all other associated works

MC/25/0259  35 Maidstone Road, Rochester, Medway, ME1 1RL
Reason 1
Change of use from residential (Class C3) to children’s home
(Class C2)

MC/25/0242 Former Kitchener Barracks, Dock Road, Chatham, Medway
Reason 1
Reason 2

Retention of the temporary Brompton Hill access point to the
Kitchener Barracks site.

MC/25/0238  Dux Court, Dux Court Road, Hoo St Werburgh, Rochester
Reason 2

Listed building consent for Repair to cracking and associated
damage in a number of areas internally and externally following
localised subsidence damage. Works to include stabilisation
of the front single storey porch, strengthening to the modern
flat roof side extension and superstructure repairs internally
and externally, coupled with redecoration proposal to install
movement joints and helifix.

Copies of all application documents and plans are available to view online at
www.medway.gov.uk/searchplanning

Representations on any of these applications should be made to the Head of Planning within 14 days from the publication date.

Dave Harris
Head of Planning
Thursday, 27 February 2025