Medway Council · Unitary authority
Transport Statements and Assessments in Medway
What transport evidence a Medway planning application needs, the parking standards that apply, and the policies an assessment should address.
Which document do you need?
National policy asks for a Transport Statement or a Transport Assessment wherever a development will generate significant amounts of movement.
Transport Statement
A shorter document for smaller schemes where transport issues are limited: access, parking, trips and sustainable travel.
Transport Assessment
A full assessment for larger schemes: trip generation, network impact, junction capacity and mitigation.
Parking standards
The standards Medway Council applies, taken from the source document below and checked against it row by row.
| Use | Maximum car parking |
|---|---|
| Residential schools, colleges or training centres | Visitor/student parking (refer to note 11) plus one space per member of staff |
| Schools (non-residential) - primary and secondary | One per member of staff plus drop off area |
| Schools (non-residential) - sixth form college | One per member of staff plus 10% casual parking plus one per seven students plus drop off area |
| B1 Business | One per 30m2 GFA |
| Non food retail warehouses | One per 20m2 GFA |
| A2 Financial and professional services | One per 18m2 GFA plus one space per member of staff |
| Amusement arcades | One per member of staff |
| B2 General industrial | One per 50m2 GFA |
| B8 Storage and distribution | One per 110m2 GFA |
| Boating facilities, marina | One per berth |
| Car hire | One per four cars in service plus one per member of staff |
| Car servicing and repairs | Four per service bay |
| Crèches/playschools or nurseries – includes day nursery and day centre | One per two staff members plus one per four children for parents |
| Further and higher education | One per 15 full time students plus one per two staff members |
| Garden centres | One per 10m2 of area open to public |
| Hospitals | Two per three beds plus four for each consulting room |
| Hot food take-aways | Six per unit |
| Hotels | One per bedroom |
| Libraries | One per 60m2 GFA |
| Night clubs, social halls | One per 20m2 |
| Open commercial uses | One per member of staff |
| Petrol filling stations | One per 20m2 of site area |
| Restaurants, cafes and banqueting halls | One per 6m2 GFA, plus one per member of staff |
| Theatre | One per five seats |
| Touring caravan sites | 1.1 per unit plus one per member of staff |
| Vehicle sales | One per 50m2 of site area |
| Wholesale trade distribution | One per 35m2 GFA |
| Use | Cycle parking |
|---|---|
| Accountants, betting offices, banks or building societies, solicitors, etc. | One per 400m2 GFA for staff |
| Offices, research and development of products and processes, industrial processes | One per 400m2 GFA for staff |
| Food retail, including cold food take-away | One per 250m2 GFA for staff and customers |
| General industrial | One per 500m2 |
| Public houses and licensed bars | One per 250m2 GFA for staff and customers |
| Storage and distribution | One per 500m2 |
Source: Medway Council Parking Standards (Adopted May 2001), Second edition September 2004Adopted May 2001Figures checked against the published document on 6 November 2026Selected tables: the source document has the full standards
Policies your assessment should address
The transport policies of the development plan documents in the summary panel. A neighbourhood plan, or a plan for one part of Medway, may also apply to your site.
Medway Local Plan 2003
- S6Planning obligations
- T2Access to the highway
- T3Provision for pedestrians
- T4Cycle facilities
- T5Bus preference measures
- T6Provision for public transport
- T7The rail network
- T9River buses and piers
- T11Development funded transport
- T12Traffic management
- T13Vehicle parking standards
- T14Travel plans
- T15Parking strategy
- T18New transport infrastructure
This page summarises adopted policy and links to the source documents. It is not legal advice: always confirm a figure against the adopted document before relying on it.