Land Adjoining The Wishful Thinkers PH Lenham Heath Road Sandway Kent ME17 2HY Data via plota.co.uk

26/503199/FULL - Full Refused

Proposal

Change of use of land for stationing of 2no. mobile homes with associated day room/utility block, bin store, parking and access, for Gypsy/Traveller use (Part Retrospective). Data via plota.co.uk

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View original council record ↗Last checked 28 Oct 2026, 04:57

Application progress

✓

Received

20 Aug 2026

✓

Consultation

16 Sept 2026

✗

Refused

15 Oct 2026

Appeal

Not lodged

Refused on 15 Oct 2026 · Delegated Decision · Last checked 16 Oct 2026

Documents 20

Consultation & comments 9

Site constraints 7

3 listed buildings within 150 m of the postcode pin

Nearest: Home Cottages, Grade II, the postcode pin is inside its outline · 3 Grade II

The site itself is not listed. Listed building consent is needed for work that affects the special interest of a listed building, inside or out, on top of planning permission. Setting can be a consideration for buildings nearby; there is no fixed radius.

Show all 3 with distances

0 mHome CottagesGrade II
7 mHome Farm Cottages Home Farm HouseGrade II
36 mBarn Circa 7 Yards South of Home FarmhouseGrade II

Historic England ↗

Nutrient neutrality catchment: Stodmarsh SAC/SPA/Ramsar

New homes and overnight accommodation must show nutrient neutrality before approval.

Natural England advice: extra wastewater in these catchments harms protected habitats, so schemes must offset their nutrient load, usually through credits.

Agricultural land, grade 2

Best and most versatile land (grades 1, 2 and 3a). Source: the Predictive Agricultural Land Classification Map (Defra and Natural England, 2025; the Welsh Government's Predictive ALC Map 2 in Wales), a model rather than a site survey. Natural England's Provisional ALC map (1:250,000, 1970s), which most planning maps still show, had this area as grade 3. The predicted grade is Defra's current estimate; only a site survey settles it.

Where development of farmland is needed, policy prefers poorer land over the best and most versatile (grades 1, 2 and 3a). Three sources: Natural England's post-1988 field surveys, which are definitive where they exist; the Defra predictive map for England (2025) and the Welsh Government predictive map, modelled from the soil map with 3a and 3b split; and the 1970s provisional map, which planners and other services still show, coarser and with grade 3 undivided. Where the provisional and predicted grades disagree, treat the predicted grade as the current estimate and expect an application to carry its own survey.

Habitat network: Network Enhancement Zone 1

Where habitat is joined up enough to work as a network. Context, not a constraint on its own.

Registered park or garden about 52 m away: Chilston Park

Its setting is a consideration for work nearby.

Registered parks and gardens, battlefields, world heritage sites and protected wrecks are designated heritage assets: harm needs clear and convincing justification.

Historic England ↗

Also on the record

Radon affected area, class 4; Priority habitat about 43 m away: Deciduous woodland.

Not affected

Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · Not green belt · No scheduled monument at the site

Checked on 6 October 2026. The pin for this application is the centre of its postcode rather than the building, so distances to nearby designations are measured from the postcode and can be out by the width of the postcode area. Historic England, the Environment Agency, Natural England, the British Geological Survey and UK Health Security Agency (radon, contains BGS materials © UKRI) and council datasets, Open Government Licence. A boundary can run through a site and the council holds the definitive record: confirm with the council before relying on this.

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Important details

Council: Maidstone
Application type: Full
Postcode: ME17 2HY
Received: 20 Aug 2026
Validated: 20 Aug 2026
Ward: Harrietsham, Lenham And North Downs
Parish: Lenham
Case officer: Show
Target decision: 15 Oct 2026
Decision: Application Refused
Decision date: 15 Oct 2026
Decision level: Delegated Decision
Applicant: Show
Agent: M P Foad Ltd

How this decision compares

Decided in 56 days from validation, about the council's usual 56 days. Refused, as 18% of changes of use here are.

This one56d

Council56d

UK56d

63%decided within 8 weeks

82%approved

91decided in the last year

Plota live figures for changes of use decided by Maidstone in the last twelve months, from validation. Maidstone decision record →

Consultation & key dates

Alt. reference: PP-15166351
Planning Portal ref: PP-15166351
Comments by: 7 Oct 2026
Site or press notice: 16 Sept 2026
Statutory expiry: 15 Oct 2026
Env. assessment: No

Historical activity at this location

7 nearby applications on record - archival context, not part of the live application.

Within ~100m

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2022 Approved

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2022 Approved

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Maidstone

Planning Authority Score

7.1/10

Good

#58 of 296 councils

Relevant to this application:

Change of use

Maidstone is faster than most councils at deciding householder applications, ranking #34 out of 296. Only 30% of applications have the time limit extended, well below the 41% national average - the council usually decides on time. Householder applications are slightly more likely to be approved here (91%) than the national average (90%).

Faster than most councils

for householder decisions

These figures are council-wide context, not a prediction for this application. View full council performance

Maidstone decision statistics

Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026

84%

Overall approval rate

Below avg (87%) #225 of 296

91%

Householder approved

Above avg (90%) #175 of 296

81%

Decided in 8 weeks

Above avg (63%) #34 of 296

30%

Extended time limit

Below avg (41%) #55 of 296

76%

Minor dwellings approved

136 decided (1-9 homes)

75%

Major dwellings approved

20 decided (10+ homes)

75%

Change of use approved

44 decided

1,110

Total decisions

181 refused in the year to March 2026

Land Adjoining The Wishful Thinkers PH Lenham Heath Road Sandway Kent ME17 2HY Data via plota.co.uk

Proposal

Application progress

Documents 20

Decision & officer reports 2

Statements & assessments 5

Plans & drawings 1

Consultation & comments 9

Other documents 3

Site constraints 7

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