Medway plans for April

A new Sainsburys, a car wash that will attract youths, some Rehman approved housing, and more

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Welcome to the latest premium Local Authority, looking at the most exciting (yes, really) planning applications of the month.

Medway receives about 200 planning applications in the average month, and I’m the idiot who actually spends his time reading through them. Most of them are pretty boring - house extensions are very common, as are tree removals and driveways - but search through enough and you inevitably find something more interesting. Below are a selection of the somewhat more interesting applications submitted to Medway Council over the past month.

Gillingham is getting a new Sainsburys