National Grid Property Holdings Limited Site Grain Road Isle Of Grain Rochester Kent

Awaiting decision MC/26/0476
Council
Date received
10 Mar 2026
Date validated
10 Mar 2026

Description

Details pursuant to partial discharge of condition 12 (Operational Lighting) on planning permission MC/07/1683 for full planning application related to the Liquid Natural Gas (LNG) storage, vaporisation and distribution facility, being alterations to development approved within the Northern Zone of planning approval MC2006/1428 comprising the relocation of the approved positions and new related equipment being; two LNG storage tanks, each having a capacity of 190,000 cubic metres; six additional submerged combustion vaporisers; and related infrastructure including (I) pipe racks connecting the new tanks to the existing site racks; (II) unloading line from the closest point to the tanks; (III) external tank pumps; (IV) boil off gas compressors; (V) an impounding basin; (VI) flow meters to monitor volume of natural gas; (VII) power connections for generated power; (VIII) provision of internal site access roads; (IX) 2.5m palisade security fence topped with barbed wire surrounding the new facilities and contiguous with the existing boundary fence; (X) a vent stack; (XI) a compressor shelter; (XII) a holding pond; and (XIII) an SCV circulation water tank