Telpits Farm Headcorn Road Grafty Green Kent ME17 2AP Data via plota.co.uk

26/503362/PNQCLA - Prior Notification Class Q Pending
AgriculturalChange of useNew homes

Proposal

Prior notification for the change of use of a building and any land within its curtilage from agricultural to 2no. residential dwellinghouses. For its prior approval to: Transport and Highways impacts of the development. Noise impacts of the development. Contamination risks on the site. Flooding risks on the site. Whether the location or siting of the building makes it otherwise impractical or undesirable for the use of the building to change from agricultural use to C3 (dwellinghouses). Design and external appearance impacts on the building. Provision of adequate natural light in all habitable rooms of the dwellinghouses. Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

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Received
3 Sept 2026
Decision
Expected by 29 Oct 2026

This application is under consideration - no decision has been issued yet. Plota predicts a decision around 29 Oct 2026, from Maidstone's recent agricultural works.

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Other documents 1

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Site constraints 3

Agricultural land, grade 3b
Not best and most versatile land (grades 1, 2 and 3a). Predicted from the national soil map. The older provisional map agrees.
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.
Also on the record
Priority habitat 35 m away: Traditional orchard.
Not affected
Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · Not green belt · No listed building at the site

Checked on 11 September 2026. Historic England, the Environment Agency, Natural England 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
Prior Notification Class Q
Postcode
ME17 2AP
Received
3 Sept 2026
Validated
3 Sept 2026
Ward
Headcorn And Sutton Valence
Parish
Boughton Malherbe
Target decision
29 Oct 2026
Decision level
Delegated Decision
Applicant
Show
Agent
Jarman Planning

Decision outlook

Day 11 of the 56-day target. Maidstone usually decides agricultural works by day 56.

Day 1145 days to the 56-day target
76%decided within 8 weeks
73%approved
43decided in the last year

Plota live figures for agricultural works decided by Maidstone in the last twelve months, from validation. Maidstone decision record →

Consultation & key dates

Statutory expiry
29 Oct 2026
Env. assessment
No

Historical activity at this location

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

Within ~100m

Nearby activity

2023 Approved
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2023 Approved
Offens Farm Headcorn Road Grafty Green Maidstone Kent ME17 2AP
Erection of single storey side extension, including solar panels to its roof, installatio…
23/505294/FULL
2022 Approved
Offens Farm Headcorn Road Grafty Green Maidstone Kent ME17 2AP
Listed Building Consent for internal and external alterations including replacement of 2n…
22/505604/LBC
2022 Refused
Barnside Headcorn Road Grafty Green Maidstone Kent ME17 2AP
Demolition of existing outbuilding, erection of 1no. outbuilding including repositioned s…
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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
Source: MHCLG planning statistics · See full council rankings