Unit 7 Walbrook Business Park Queenborough Road Halfway Kent ME12 3XS Data via plota.co.uk

26/501318/FULL - Full Awaiting decision
Commercial & major worksCommercial premises

Proposal

Erection of a two storey commercial unit for Use Classes B2/B8, with associated parking and cycle storage (to replace office building Block 7 previously approved under ). Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

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Received
17 Apr 2026
✓
Consultation
28 Apr 2026
Decision
Expected by 25 Sept 2026

Under consideration

No decision has been issued yet. Plota predicted a decision around 9 Oct 2026; it is now day 175.

The consultation period closed on 19 May 2026.

Documents 14

Statements & assessments 8

PDF KCC Highways and Transportation Consultee Comment · 23 Apr 2026 View ↗ PDF Baseline Habitats Plan Biodiversity Survey/Report · 15 Apr 2026 View ↗ PDF Post Development Habitat Plan Biodiversity Survey/Report · 15 Apr 2026 View ↗ PDF Biodiversity Net Gain Metric Biodiversity Survey/Report · 9 Apr 2026 View ↗ PDF Baseline Habitats Plan Biodiversity Survey/Report · 9 Apr 2026 View ↗ PDF Baseline Habitat Assessment Biodiversity Survey/Report · 7 Apr 2026 View ↗ PDF Biodiversity Net Gain Assessment: Design Stage Report Biodiversity Survey/Report · 7 Apr 2026 View ↗ PDF Flood Risk Assessment Flood Risk Assessment · 7 Apr 2026 View ↗

Consultation & comments 5

PDF North Kent Marshes WLMB Consultee Comment · 11 May 2026 View ↗ PDF Environment Agency Consultee Comment · 1 May 2026 View ↗ PDF . Queenborough Town Council Queenborough Town Council Consultee Comment · 30 Apr 2026 View ↗ PDF . Environmental Protection Consultee Comment · 27 Apr 2026 View ↗ PDF Cllr Whiting Consultee Comment · 22 Apr 2026 View ↗

Other documents 1

PDF ApplicationFormRedacted Application Details · 7 Apr 2026 View ↗

All documents on the council site ↗

Associated applications 2

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Site constraints 6

Flood zone 2, rivers and sea
Medium chance: between a 1 in 100 and 1 in 1,000 annual chance from rivers, or 1 in 200 to 1 in 1,000 from the sea. Any development here needs a flood risk assessment. Defences are not counted.
The Environment Agency flood map for planning. Homes in zone 3 must also pass the sequential test. Surface water flooding is a separate map.
Flood map ↗
Agricultural land, grade 3b
Not best and most versatile land (grades 1, 2 and 3a). Source: the Predictive Agricultural Land Classification Map (Defra and Natural England, 2025; the Welsh Government's Predictive ALC Map 2 in Wales), a model rather than a site survey. Natural England's Provisional ALC map (1:250,000, 1970s) agrees.
Where development of farmland is needed, policy prefers poorer land over the best and most versatile (grades 1, 2 and 3a). Three sources: Natural England's post-1988 field surveys, which are definitive where they exist; the Defra predictive map for England (2025) and the Welsh Government predictive map, modelled from the soil map with 3a and 3b split; and the 1970s provisional map, which planners and other services still show, coarser and with grade 3 undivided. Where the provisional and predicted grades disagree, treat the predicted grade as the current estimate and expect an application to carry its own survey.
Habitat network: Network Enhancement Zone 2
Where habitat is joined up enough to work as a network. Context, not a constraint on its own.
Also on the record
Nature improvement area: Greater Thames Marshes; Ramsar wetland 443 m away: Medway Estuary & Marshes; SSSI 443 m away: Tower Hill to Cockham Wood SSSI.
Not affected
Not green belt · No listed building at the site · No scheduled monument at the site

Checked on 6 October 2026. Historic England, the Environment Agency, Natural England and council datasets, Open Government Licence. A boundary can run through a site and the council holds the definitive record: confirm with the council before relying on this.

Building

Floor area522 m² (5,619 sq ft)
Energy ratingA (asset rating 11)
UseStorage or Distribution
HeatingAir Conditioning

From the energy performance certificate lodged in May 2026, the latest held for this property. The building may have changed since. View the certificate

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Important details

Council
Swale
Application type
Full
Postcode
ME12 3XS
Received
17 Apr 2026
Validated
17 Apr 2026
Ward
Queenborough And Halfway
Parish
Queenborough
Case officer
Show
Target decision
25 Sept 2026
Decision level
Delegated Decision
Applicant
Show
Agent
Ian Mutch Dipl Arch (Hons)

Decision outlook

Day 175, past the statutory target. 76% of commercial premises in Swale are decided within thirteen weeks; extensions of time are common, and the council need not decide on the day. Last seen undecided on 7 Oct 2026.

Day 175119 days past the 56-day target
57%decided within 8 weeks
87%approved
58decided in the last year

Plota live figures for commercial premises decided by Swale in the last twelve months, from validation. Swale decision record →

Consultation & key dates

Alt. reference
PP-14833202
Planning Portal ref
PP-14833202
Comments by
19 May 2026
Site or press notice
28 Apr 2026
Statutory expiry
12 Jun 2026
Env. assessment
No

Historical activity at this location

13 nearby applications on record - archival context, not part of the live application.

Within ~100m

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2021 Approved
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Advert Application for 2 no. totem signs, 11 no. lawn signs and 2 no. fascia signs.
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2022
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2022 Approved
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2022 Approved
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Swale
Planning Authority Score
2.3/10
Poor
#263 of 296 councils
Relevant to this application:
Householder decisions

Swale is one of the slowest councils in England for householder decisions, ranking #275 out of 296. The council extends the time limit on 70% of applications - one of the highest rates in England. Expect your application to take longer than the standard deadline. Householder applications are slightly more likely to be approved here (94%) than the national average (90%).

Among the slowest councils in England
for householder decisions
These figures are council-wide context, not a prediction for this application. View full council performance
Swale decision statistics
Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026
89%
Overall approval rate
Above avg (87%) #143 of 296
94%
Householder approved
Above avg (90%) #120 of 296
37%
Decided in 8 weeks
Below avg (63%) #275 of 296
70%
Extended time limit
Above avg (41%) #286 of 296
72%
Minor dwellings approved
81 decided (1-9 homes)
84%
Major dwellings approved
25 decided (10+ homes)
95%
Change of use approved
22 decided
658
Total decisions
71 refused in the year to March 2026
Source: MHCLG planning statistics · See full council rankings

Energy performance: Energy performance certificates from the Energy Performance of Buildings Register, Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. © Crown copyright 2026.