Inside Mountbatten House Chatham

Built as part of the redevelopment of chatham town centre in the 1970s the pentagon also features the high rise mountbatten house office block which has controversially stood empty or part used for most of its history.

Inside mountbatten house chatham. But just how much has the medway shopping centre changed in the last four decades. These fascinating snaps from inside the pentagon were floating around in the shopping centres archive and sent to kent live. Radical redevelopment of mountbatten house to be revealed this autumn plans to transform an eyesore office block that has stood empty for most of its history could. The local community is being consulted on a number of issues affecting the luton and central chatham area including housing transport the environment and the economy.

Chatham is the transport hub of the medway towns and once boasted a bustling dockyard which has now become a commercial port and business and residential area. Wood farm an unassuming cottage on the edge of the sandringham estate. Rochester and gillingham are the neighbouring medway towns. Mountbatten house chatham which has had all of its services disconnected bar emergency lighting sits above the pentagon centre and the sub lease is owned by mapeley gamma acquisition co 2 ltd.

For all the grand royal palaces at his disposal it is a rather more modest address which prince philip chooses to call home. It has military connections with brompton barracks in the centre of the town and was where charles dickens lived for what the writer called the happiest part of his childhood. Mountbatten house in the centre of chatham used to be home to companies such as scottish widows and lloyds but has stood almost empty for several years. Apart from being a massive eyesore it all makes chatham feel like a concrete fortress and seriously detracts from the shopping experience.

The pentagon shopping centre is a familiar sight to those living in chathams high street. The property is situated in chatham 29 miles south east of central london 8 miles north of maidstone and 25 miles west of canterbury. Its a huge shame that mountbatten house the bus station and the pentagon arent all being demolished in one go and something much nicer built. The pentagon mountbatten house and the brook multi storey carpark are built in a distinctive orange red brick with grey concrete.

41 mountbatten house is a significant and prominent office building in the centre of chatham built above the pentagon centre.