Outline proposals have been approved for a mixed use scheme at The Brook, on the site of the current Queen Street and Slicketts Hill car parks in Chatham.

The scheme comprises 3,500 sq.m of retail development (Classes A1 and A2) with ancillary parking and residential development to include 120 apartments and 26 townhouses. The site is of strategic importance in the Masterplan proposals for Chatham, and the proposals draw on the ambitions of the 2008 Chatham Centre and Waterfront Development Brief.

Image courtesy of Spacecraft Architects.

The former Mid Kent College campus on Fort Pitt Hill, City Way in Rochester was reloated to the new Lower Lines campus, Gillingham in September 2007.

The City Way campus site, extending to 2.73 hectares, has been extensively developed over many years, but the buildings are dated and uneconomical to maintain.

Bloomfields submitted an outline planning application for the site on behalf of Mid Kent College, for residential development. Planning permission was approved subject to a resolution by Medway Council.

Image by kind permission of Mid Kent College.

Acknowledgement to Harrisons Chartered Surveyors.

Mid Kent College has relocated two of their campus - City Way and Horsted - to new, more modern and economical facilities on the campus at Lower Lines in Gillingham. Click here for more information.

The Horsted Way site, at approx 8.1 ha, housed buildings dating from the 1950s, with lower building standards. Many buildings reached the end of their economic life and needed costly replacement.

Bloomfields submitted an outline application on behalf of Mid Kent College in February 2005, for mixed residential, commercial (Class B1), retail (Class A1) and community (Class D1) development. Planning permission was approved subject to a resolution by Medway Council.

Image by kind permission of Mid Kent College. 

Acknowledgement to Harrisons Chartered Surveyors.

Medway Gate is a brownfield development just off the A228 at Cuxton. The disused chalk pit has been developed and landscaped to provide 453 dwellings, community services and business units, public open space and infrastructure. The green open spaces are conservation areas for protected species.

The site incorporates a mix of architectural styles in a range of 2, 3 and 4 bedroom homes and apartments.

Acknowledgements to Terance Butler Holdings Ltd, Strand Harbour Developments Ltd, David Jarvis Associates.