Planning application
Nuralite Industrial Estate Canal Road Higham Rochester Kent ME3 7JA
Works: Demolition
Still open. Anyone can comment while the consultation period runs, and comments go to the council rather than to us.
Proposal
Application for approval of condition 2, 5, 8, 9, 11 and 12 attached to planning permission reference number 20250721 relating to full details of the road improvements works at the Canal Road / Chequers Street / Church Street /Lower Rochester Road junction (2), full details of the phasing of the development (5), a comprehensive Demolition and Construction Logistics Plan covering all environmental impacts (8), a full Construction Traffic Management Plan (9), an updated preliminary ecological appraisal and review and of the site wide mitigation strategy (11) and a strategy to deal with the potential risks associated with any contamination of the site or the relevant phase (12).
As published by the council, reference 20260521
Application record
- Reference
- 20260521
- Type
- Discharge of Conditions
- Status
- Pending Consideration
- Received
- 19 May 2026
- Validated
- 19 May 2026
- Ward
- Higham And Shorne
- Parish
- Shorne
- Postcode
- ME3 7JA
Site history
Applications at this address on the Gravesham register
This site has had 2 applications since 2025: 1 approved, 0 refused.
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20250721 Granted
Nuralite Industrial Estate Canal Road Higham Rochester Kent ME3 7JA
Application for removal of conditions 4 and 12 and variation of condition 7 attached to 20190290 - The proposal is for the systematic redevelopment of the existing Nuralite site. This includes the importation of inert materials to cap, and landscape the historic asbestos landfill, thus containing its contamination risk. To demolish the existing buildings of the Nuralite industrial estate, deal with existing contamination, both through capping and removal of areas of hydrocarbon pollution, the laying of new service and utility infrastructure and the construction of 11 new purpose built light industrial type units and a site office; to allow removal of passing places, Archaeological works and implementation of a TRO for all traffic.
Timeline
Dates from the published record
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19 May 2026
Received by Gravesham
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26 Jul 2026
Added to PlanIndex
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Decision
Awaiting decision
Decision expected by 14 July 2026, 8 weeks from validation under the statutory target for most applications. Extensions of time are common and are agreed case by case.
Gravesham took a median of 56 days over the applications it decided in the last year.
Documents
Plans, drawings, consultee responses and the officer's report
127 documents on file for this application
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Open the documentsWhat happens while it is decided
This application is with Gravesham for determination, against a statutory target of eight weeks. Over the last year Gravesham decided condition discharge and variation applications in a median of 62 days. More in our guide to how long planning decisions take.
About condition discharge and variation applications
This application deals with conditions on an existing permission, supplying the details a condition requires or asking to vary or remove one, without reopening the permission itself. More in our guide to planning application types.
Nearby applications
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Nuralite Industrial Estate Canal Road Higham Rochester Kent ME3 7JA
Application for removal of conditions 4 and 12 and variation of condition 7 attached to 20190290 - The proposal is for the systematic redevelopment of the existing Nuralite site. This includes the importation of inert materials to cap, and landscape the historic asbestos landfill, thus containing its contamination risk. To demolish the existing buildings of the Nuralite industrial estate, deal with existing contamination, both through capping and removal of areas of hydrocarbon pollution, the laying of new service and utility infrastructure and the construction of 11 new purpose built light industrial type units and a site office; to allow removal of passing places, Archaeological works and implementation of a TRO for all traffic.
Granted Outline Demolition 166 docsMajor scheme
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