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The register/MC/26/1809

Condition 13: the Town Road signage

Town Road, Cliffe Woods. Comment by 14 October 2026.

The register entry

Condition 13: the Town Road signage, Town Road, Cliffe Woods

Open for comment
Homes pre-commencementDeveloper Esquire Developments
MC/26/1809 (opens in a new tab)

Received and validated on 21 September 2026. Condition 13 requires the details of the highway works on the B2000, as shown on drawings ITB11092-GA-023 and ITB11092-GA-024, to be approved before any development takes place, with the works carried out before the 50th dwelling is occupied. What has been filed is an application form and two signage drawings by Robert West Consulting, dated 26 August 2026. Neither carries the ITB11092 reference the condition names. The two sheets are different drawings, covering different ground at different scales, yet both print the same number in the title block, 6051 at revision A01, under the register reference 5997-003. The application form gives them two different numbers, 5997-003-6051 for Town Road South and 5997-003-6052 for Town Road North. The file properties of the two published drawings bear out the form: the Town Road North sheet was plotted from a file named 6052, the Town Road South sheet from one named 6051. Both drawings are therefore on the file. What is wrong is that the North sheet prints 6051 on its face, so no sheet before the council prints the number 6052 at all. The form also lists a covering letter among the items submitted, which Medway had not published as at 9 October 2026. Both sheets name the project as Church Road, Cliffe; the site is Land to the east and west of Church Street. What each sheet shows is a location plan annotated with photographs of existing signs and road markings. Neither carries a sign schedule, a Traffic Signs Regulations diagram number or a single dimension for any sign proposed. Comment by 14 October 2026, when Medway’s consultation period ends. Medway’s own target date is 16 November 2026.

  • Signage on the B2000, the main road through Cliffe and Cliffe Woods
  • Two different drawings filed under one drawing number
  • A pre-commencement condition on the permission for up to 250 dwellings
  • Signs shown as photographs, with no schedule, diagram number or dimension

Comment by 14 October 2026

Comment on MC/26/1809 (opens in a new tab)Checked 2026-10-09

Making it count

What you can do about it

Comment on MC/26/1809

Comment by Wednesday 14 October 2026, which is when Medway’s consultation period ends.

Use the comment form on Medway’s portal, which needs a login, or email planning.representations@medway.gov.uk quoting MC/26/1809.

Comment on the portal (opens in a new tab)

Build your objection

The group’s objection builder has five points Medway has to answer on this application:

  • Two different drawings carry the same drawing number
  • The drawings carry no cross-reference to the drawings the condition names
  • The submission shows photographs of signs, not the details of signs
  • Both drawings name the wrong road
  • A covering letter is listed but has not been published

Open the builder on MC/26/1809

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Noticeboard

What the group has said about it

Newest first. The full noticeboard is on the main page.

Newsletter, 9 October: contamination conditions discharged

Four pages, in plain English. Medway discharged conditions 20 to 23 on MC/26/1542 on 8 October for the whole site. Its decision letter relies on a specialist consultation response that has not been published. Objections on MC/26/1719 to MC/26/1724 rose from forty-five on 2 October to seventy-three on 9 October. None of the six has been decided; Medway’s own target dates are 2 and 3 November. MC/26/1809 is open until 14 October.

Read the newsletter: Newsletter, 9 October: contamination conditions discharged (opens in a new tab)

Newsletter, 2 October: six closed, one still open

Five pages, in plain English. The six applications validated on 7 and 8 September, MC/26/1719 to MC/26/1724, closed on 1 and 2 October with forty-five objections between them on Medway’s file. None has been decided; Medway’s own target dates are 2 and 3 November. The parish council’s response on the travel plan is on the file. MC/26/1809 is the one application on the Church Street land still open, until 14 October. Medway refused three homes at Westfield, Town Road, on 24 September.

Read the newsletter: Newsletter, 2 October: six closed, one still open (opens in a new tab)

Six consultations close on the Church Street land

Medway’s consultation periods on MC/26/1722 and MC/26/1723 ended on 1 October 2026 and on MC/26/1719, MC/26/1720, MC/26/1721 and MC/26/1724 on 2 October 2026. On 2 October Medway’s register recorded forty-five comments across the six, all of them objections: nine on MC/26/1722, eight on MC/26/1723 and seven on each of the other four. None had been decided. Medway’s own target dates for deciding them are 2 and 3 November 2026. A comment can still count while an application is undecided. MC/26/1809, the Town Road signage under condition 13, is open until 14 October.

MC/26/1719 on Medway’s file: Six consultations close on the Church Street land (opens in a new tab)

Newsletter, 25 September: one closed, a seventh arrives

Six pages, in plain English. Comments on MC/26/1646, the replacement recreation ground, closed on 24 September with twenty-two objections on Medway’s file, eleven of them filed in the last week. A seventh application on the Church Street land, MC/26/1809, was validated on 21 September and closes on 14 October. Medway discharged condition 15 at Buckland Road on 22 September. Six applications close on 1 and 2 October. The answer the committee asked Medway for on the drainage decision is due by 30 September.

Read the newsletter: Newsletter, 25 September: one closed, a seventh arrives (opens in a new tab)

A further application on the Church Street land, MC/26/1809

Medway validated MC/26/1809 on 21 September 2026. It asks the council to approve the highway works required by condition 13 of the appeal decision. Three documents are on the file: an application form and two drawings titled ‘Highway works signage plans’, one for Town Road north and one for Town Road south. Consultation opened on 23 September and closes on 14 October 2026. Medway’s own target date for deciding it is 16 November 2026. It now has its own page on this register, with the points the group has taken from the documents on the file.

MC/26/1809 on Medway’s file: A further application on the Church Street land, MC/26/1809 (opens in a new tab)

How we got here

Where it sits in the story

  1. A further application on the Church Street land

    Medway validates MC/26/1809, the highway works required by condition 13 of the appeal decision. Its file holds an application form and two signage drawings, one for Town Road north and one for Town Road south. Consultation opens on 23 September and closes on 14 October 2026.

The same land

The other applications on this site

All made under MC/22/0254, the outline permission allowed on appeal in November 2023.