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Chatham is the commercial heart of Medway, and it's ten minutes from our Rochester office. From dockside businesses at Chatham Maritime to independent traders around the Pentagon Centre and practices serving the Universities at Medway, we act for clients across ME4 and ME5.
Few Kent towns have reinvented themselves as thoroughly as Chatham. The Historic Dockyard that once employed ten thousand shipwrights is now a visitor economy in its own right, Chatham Maritime has brought waterfront offices, the Dockside Outlet Centre and three university campuses to St Mary's Island, and the town centre around the Pentagon and the new Waterfront bus interchange supports a dense cluster of independent retailers, food businesses and services.
We work with businesses across this whole spectrum: tourism and hospitality operators who feel the seasonal pull of the Dockyard's event calendar, retailers balancing Pentagon footfall against online sales, professional practices at Chatham Maritime, and the trades and logistics firms based around Anchorage Park and the ME5 industrial estates.
The Universities at Medway campus and Mid Kent College have made Chatham a genuine student-property market. We advise ME4 and ME5 landlords on HMO licensing costs, the tax treatment of room-by-room lettings, and when a portfolio is better held in a company — questions that come up constantly in Chatham and rarely have one-size-fits-all answers.
Beyond the centre, Chatham's residential districts — Luton, Wayfield, Walderslade, Lordswood — are home to hundreds of sole traders, contractors and family companies. For them we keep it simple: fixed monthly fees, cloud bookkeeping, deadlines never missed, and a partner who answers the phone.
We offer a full range of accounting and tax services to clients in Chatham, including:
We provide comprehensive accounting services to businesses of all sizes in Chatham.
Still comparing firms? Read our guide on why an independent local accountant still beats the big groups for clients in Chatham, and our explainer on what chartered vs certified qualifications actually mean when choosing an accountant.
Our office at Kenden Business Park, Medway City Estate is about ten minutes from Chatham town centre — over Medway City Estate's own bridge from the A289, with free parking, which most Chatham clients find easier than parking near the Pentagon. Plenty of Chatham clients also keep everything digital between an annual sit-down.
Looking for something more specific? We've put together dedicated pages for the services and areas our Chatham clients search for most:
We also work with businesses, landlords and individuals across the neighbouring towns and the wider county:
Contact us today for a free, no-obligation intro consultation — tell us about your accounting and tax needs in Chatham and we'll explain how we can help and what it would cost.
Practical, jargon-free articles from our chartered accountants on tax, business finances and local matters relevant to Chatham.
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