Land South Of Lower Rainham Road Rainham Gillingham Medway ME8 7UD Data via plota.co.uk

MC/26/0948 - Discharge Condition Decided

Proposal

Details pursuant to discharge condition 26 (Verification Reports), for some plots, on planning permission - Outline planning application (all matters reserved except access) for the development of up to 202 residential dwellings (Use Class C3), open space, landscaping (including Sustainable Urban Drainage), access, up to 455 car parking spaces and associated works. Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

Received
18 May 2026
Consultation
26 May 2026
Discharge of Conditions
1 Sept 2026

Discharge of Conditions on 1 Sept 2026 · Delegated Decision · Last checked 3 Sept 2026

Associated applications 4

Site constraints 7

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 ↗
Habitat network: Network Enhancement Zone 1
Where habitat is joined up enough to work as a network. Context, not a constraint on its own.
Ramsar wetland 316 m away: Medway Estuary & Marshes
Work nearby can need a habitats assessment.
Harm to a protected site is only accepted where there is no alternative and an overriding public interest.
Also on the record
Nature improvement area: Greater Thames Marshes; SSSI 316 m away: Tower Hill to Cockham Wood SSSI; Inside the Gillingham (Medway) built-up area; the 1970s provisional farmland map had this area as grade 2, but it predates the buildings here and the current map does not class it as farmland.
Not affected
Not green belt · No listed building at the site · No scheduled monument at the site

Checked on 11 September 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.

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Important details

Council
Medway
Application type
Discharge Condition
Postcode
ME8 7UD
Received
18 May 2026
Validated
18 May 2026
Ward
Rainham North
Case officer
Show
Decision
Discharge of Conditions
Decision date
1 Sept 2026
Decision level
Delegated Decision
Agent
DHA Planning

Public comments

No public comments yet.

Last counted 3 Sept 2026

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Consultation & key dates

Alt. reference
PP-14936510
Consultation
26 May 2026
Comments by
16 Jun 2026
Env. assessment
No
Medway
Planning Authority Score
9.2/10
Excellent
#3 of 296 councils
Relevant to this application:
Householder decisions

Medway is one of the fastest councils in England for householder decisions, ranking #8 out of 296. Only 19% of applications have the time limit extended, well below the 41% national average - the council usually decides on time. Householder applications are slightly more likely to be approved here (96%) than the national average (90%).

Among the fastest councils in England
for householder decisions
These figures are council-wide context, not a prediction for this application. View full council performance
Medway decision statistics
Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026
91%
Overall approval rate
Above avg (87%) #99 of 296
96%
Householder approved
Above avg (90%) #53 of 296
94%
Decided in 8 weeks
Above avg (63%) #8 of 296
19%
Extended time limit
Below avg (41%) #16 of 296
79%
Minor dwellings approved
106 decided (1-9 homes)
78%
Major dwellings approved
27 decided (10+ homes)
75%
Change of use approved
67 decided
999
Total decisions
88 refused in the year to March 2026