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26/503395/ADJ - Adjoining Authority Consultation Awaiting decision

Proposal

Adjoining Authority Consultation from Maidstone Borough Council to Swale Borough Council ref: 26/503194/FULL: Conversion of existing stable block into a self-build residential dwelling with ancillary car parking with electric charging point, cycle space and bin storage facilities, together with ecology enhancements. Data via plota.co.uk

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View original council record ↗Last checked 14 Sept 2026, 09:06

Application progress

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Received

3 Sept 2026

Decision

Expected by 24 Sept 2026

This application is under consideration - no decision has been issued yet. A decision is expected by 24 Sept 2026.

Documents

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Associated applications 2

Part of

FullPending24 Aug 202626/503194/FULL
Conversion of existing stable block into a self-build residential dwelling with ancillary car parking with electric charging…
- FullAdjoining Authority Consultation from Maidstone Borough Council to Swale Borough Council…This application3 Sep 202626/503395/ADJ

Site constraints 6

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 ↗

Kent Downs National Landscape

Great weight to conserving the landscape; major development restricted.

Previously an area of outstanding natural beauty, which is still the designation in law. Since 2023 authorities must seek to further its purpose, not merely have regard to it.

Agricultural land, grade 2

Best and most versatile land (grades 1, 2 and 3a). Predicted from the national soil map. The older provisional map, 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.

Special area of conservation 220 m away: Queendown Warren

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.

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

SSSI 224 m away: Queendown Warren SSSI.

Not affected

Not green belt · No listed building at the site · No scheduled monument 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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