Homesby Court Windmill Hill Ulcombe Kent ME17 1EP Data via plota.co.uk

26/501073/PNQCLA - Prior Notification Class Q Approved

Proposal

Prior notification for the change of use of a building and any land within its curtilage from agricultural to 2no. dwellinghouses and associated operation development. 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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View original council record ↗Last checked 24 Aug 2026, 09:08

Application progress

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Received

20 Mar 2026

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Consultation

8 Apr 2026

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Approved

15 May 2026

Approved on 15 May 2026 · Delegated Decision · Last checked 4 Aug 2026

Documents 10

Site constraints 3

Grade II listed: Lower Knowle Hill Farmhouse

List entry 1374219 · 1 m from the pin · 1 more listed building within 150 m (1 Grade II*)

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.

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55 mMansion Farmhouse including ancillary buildings and structuresGrade II*

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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.

Not affected

Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · Not green belt · 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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Important details

Council: Maidstone
Application type: Prior Notification Class Q
Postcode: ME17 1ES
Received: 20 Mar 2026
Validated: 20 Mar 2026
Ward: Headcorn And Sutton Valence
Parish: Ulcombe
Case officer: Show
Target decision: 15 May 2026
Decision: Prior Approval Granted
Decision date: 15 May 2026
Decision level: Delegated Decision
Applicant: Show
Agent: Show

How this decision compares

Decided in 56 days from validation, about the council's usual 56 days. Approved, as 76% of agricultural works here are.

This one56d

Council56d

UK41d

79%decided within 8 weeks

76%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

Alt. reference: PP-14704685
Site or press notice: 8 Apr 2026
Env. assessment: No

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

Homesby Court Windmill Hill Ulcombe Kent ME17 1EP Data via plota.co.uk

Proposal

Application progress

Documents 10

Decision & officer reports 2

Statements & assessments 1

Plans & drawings 1

Consultation & comments 4

Other documents 2

Site constraints 3

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