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MC/26/1470 - Screening Opinion Approved

Proposal

Conservation of Habitats and Species Regulations (2017), as amended by the Conservation of Habitats and Species (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 - request for a HRA screening opinion - Scheme B - Mixed use development comprising up to 2000 dwellings (Class C3), 2500sqm (Class E(a)), 350sqm (Sui Generis), full vehicle charging infrastructure, mixed use local centre comprising of commercial business and service uses, green Infrastructure including open Spaces, playing field with changing facilities and associated infrastructure. Data via plota.co.uk

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View original council record ↗Last checked 27 Oct 2026, 01:53

Application progress

✓

Received

3 Aug 2026

✓

Consultation

6 Aug 2026

✓

Approved

29 Sept 2026

Approved on 29 Sept 2026 · Delegated Decision · Last checked 30 Sept 2026

Documents 3

Decision & officer reports 2

PDF DECISION NOTICE Decision Notice · 29 Sept 2026 View ↗ PDF CASE OFFICER REPORT Case Officer Report · 29 Sept 2026 View ↗

Consultation & comments 1

PDF Commenter’s name hidden Show Letter of Representation · 4 Aug 2026 View ↗

All documents on the council site ↗

Site constraints 4

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), which most planning maps still show, had this area as grade 4. The predicted grade is Defra's current estimate; only a site survey settles it.

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

Priority habitat 30 m away: Deciduous woodland.

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.

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Important details

Council: Medway
Application type: Screening Opinion
Received: 3 Aug 2026
Validated: 3 Aug 2026
Ward: Hoo St Werburgh & High Halstow
Case officer: Show
Target decision: 29 Sept 2026
Decision: Raise No Objection
Decision date: 29 Sept 2026
Decision level: Delegated Decision
Applicant: Show
Agent: David Lock Associates

How this decision compares

Decided in 57 days from validation, about the council's usual 56 days. Approved, as 74% of new homes here are.

This one57d

Council56d

UK59d

57%decided within 8 weeks

74%approved

11%go to committee

Plota live figures for new homes decided by Medway in the last twelve months, from validation. Medway decision record →

Public comments

No public comments yet.

Last counted 30 Sept 2026

Read the comments on the council site ↗

Consultation & key dates

Consultation: 6 Aug 2026
Comments by: 19 Aug 2026
Env. assessment: No

Medway

Planning Authority Score

9.2/10

Excellent

#3 of 296 councils

Relevant to this application:

Major dwellings

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