Apex Business Park Queens Farm Road Shorne Gravesend Kent DA12 3HU Data via plota.co.uk

20260904 - Kent County Council Application Pending Decision
Admin / proceduralCommercial premises

Proposal

KCC Re-Consultation () - Section 73 application to vary conditions 2 and 21 of planning permission to allow alterations to the site layout. Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

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Received
8 Sept 2026
Decision
Target date was 6 Oct 2026

Under consideration

No decision has been issued yet. A decision is expected by 6 Oct 2026.

Documents

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Site constraints 9

Green belt: London
Inappropriate development needs very special circumstances.
Green belt policy allows a short list of exceptions, such as limited extensions and replacement buildings. Anything else needs very special circumstances that clearly outweigh the harm. Some green belt land can count as grey belt, where it does not strongly serve the green belt's purposes. The council decides this in its green belt assessment or on each application, so we do not mark it here.
Read the government guidance ↗
Flood zone 3, rivers and sea
High chance: a 1 in 100 or greater annual chance from rivers, or 1 in 200 from the sea. Any development here needs a flood risk assessment. Defences are not counted.
The Environment Agency flood map for planning. Homes in zone 3 must also pass the sequential test. Surface water flooding is a separate map.
Flood map ↗
Ramsar wetland about 70 m away: Thames Estuary & Marshes
Work nearby can need a habitats assessment.
Harm to a protected site is only accepted where there is no alternative and an overriding public interest.
Agricultural land, grade 3a
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 4. 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.
SSSI about 70 m away: South Thames Estuary and Marshes SSSI
Natural England may need consulting, depending on what is proposed.
Sites of special scientific interest are the best wildlife and geological sites in the country. Development likely to harm one is rarely permitted.
Habitat network: Network Enhancement Zone 1
Where habitat is joined up enough to work as a network. Context, not a constraint on its own.
Conservation area about 10 m away: Queen's Farm, Shorne Conservation Area
The edge of the area; work outside it can still affect its setting.
The council must give weight to preserving or enhancing the area's character and appearance. Not every council has published its boundaries as open data.
Council document ↗
Also on the record
Radon affected area, class 2; National infrastructure project about 1403 m away: Lower Thames Crossing.
Not affected
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 Planning Inspectorate, 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
Gravesham
Application type
Kent County Council Application
Postcode
DA12 3HU
Received
8 Sept 2026
Validated
8 Sept 2026
Ward
Higham And Shorne
Parish
Shorne
Case officer
Show
Target decision
6 Oct 2026
Applicant
Show

Public comments

No public comments yet.

Last counted 28 Oct 2026

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Consultation & key dates

Alt. reference
GR/25/1008 (KCC/GR/0048/2025)
Statutory expiry
6 Oct 2026
Env. assessment
No

Historical activity at this location

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

This property

Previous applications at this address

2025 Approved
KCC Consultation KCC/GR/0048/2025 - Section 73 application to vary conditions 2 and 21 of…
20251008
2025 Approved
KCC Consultation KCC/GR/0048/2025 - Section 73 application to vary conditions 2 and 21 of…
20251008
Within ~100m

Nearby activity

2025
Apex Business Park, Unit 4a, Queens Farm Road, Shorne, Gravesend, Kent DA12 3HU
Section 73 application to vary conditions 2 and 21 of planning permission GR/15/1192 to a…
KCC/GR/0048/2025
2025
Unit 23 Apex Business Park Queens Farm Road Shorne Gravesend Kent DA12 3HU
Erection of a temporary structure for workshop/office to include installation of foundati…
20250843
2025
Unit 23 Apex Business Park Queens Farm Road Shorne Gravesend Kent DA12 3HU
Erection of a temporary structure for workshop/office to include installation of foundati…
20250843
2017 Withdrawn
Unit 4 Apex Business Park Queens Farm Road Shorne Gravesend Kent
Application under Regulation 3 Details pursuant to conditions to planning permission GR/1…
20170077
2016 Approved
Star Kickboxing Unit 9 Apex Business Park Queens Farm Road Shorne Gravesend Kent DA12 3HU
Continued use of industrial unit as a fitness academy.
20160153
Gravesham
Planning Authority Score
4.4/10
Below average
#180 of 296 councils
Relevant to this application:
Householder decisions

Gravesham ranks #104 out of 296 councils for householder decision speed. Gravesham is also one of the strictest councils - it refuses more householder applications than almost any other, with only 78% approved vs 90% nationally.

One of the strictest councils
only 78% approved vs 90% nationally
These figures are council-wide context, not a prediction for this application. View full council performance
Gravesham decision statistics
Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026
75%
Overall approval rate
Below avg (87%) #287 of 296
78%
Householder approved
Below avg (90%) #286 of 296
72%
Decided in 8 weeks
Above avg (63%) #104 of 296
36%
Extended time limit
Below avg (41%) #110 of 296
58%
Minor dwellings approved
64 decided (1-9 homes)
50%
Major dwellings approved
6 decided (10+ homes)
65%
Change of use approved
34 decided
619
Total decisions
156 refused in the year to March 2026
Source: MHCLG planning statistics · See full council rankings