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26/504056/REM - Approval of Reserved Matters Awaiting decision
Commercial & major worksNew homesCommercial premises

Proposal

Approval of Reserved Matters for Phases 1 and 2 (layout, appearance, scale and landscaping) for the erection of 178no. residential dwellings, comprising market and affordable dwellings, and 446sqm of non-residential floorspace (Use Class E/F), public open space, parking, drainage infrastructure and associated works pursuant to (as amended by ). Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

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Received
around 30 Oct 2026
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Consultation
3 Nov 2026
Decision
Expected by 29 Jan 2027

Under consideration

No decision has been issued yet. Plota predicts a decision between 25 Dec 2026 and 7 Jan 2027, from Maidstone's recent commercial and major works.

Comments are open until 3 Dec 2026

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Documents 3

Statements & assessments 2

PDF Planning Statement Planning Statement · 30 Oct 2026 View ↗ PDF Biodiversity Net Gain Metric Biodiversity Survey/Report · 21 Oct 2026 View ↗

Other documents 1

PDF ApplicationFormRedacted Application Details · 21 Oct 2026 View ↗

All documents on the council site ↗

Site constraints 5

Flood zone 2, rivers and sea
Medium chance: between a 1 in 100 and 1 in 1,000 annual chance from rivers, or 1 in 200 to 1 in 1,000 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 ↗
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 1. 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 2
Where habitat is joined up enough to work as a network. Context, not a constraint on its own.
Special protection area 306 m away: The Swale
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.
Also on the record
SSSI 305 m away: The Swale SSSI.
Not affected
Not green belt · No listed building at the site · No scheduled monument at the site

Checked on 1 November 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
Approval of Reserved Matters
Received
around 30 Oct 2026
Validated
30 Oct 2026
Ward
Teynham And Lynsted
Parish
Tonge
Case officer
Show
Target decision
29 Jan 2027
Decision level
Delegated Decision
Applicant
Show
Agent
Marrons

Decision outlook

Day 12 of the 91-day target. Maidstone usually decides commercial and major works by day 56.

Day 1279 days to the 91-day target
58%decided within 8 weeks
76%approved
7%go to committee

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

Consultation & key dates

Alt. reference
PP-15274152
Planning Portal ref
PP-15274152
Comments by
3 Dec 2026
Site or press notice
5 Nov 2026
Statutory expiry
29 Jan 2027
Env. assessment
No
Maidstone
Planning Authority Score
7.1/10
Good
#58 of 296 councils
Relevant to this application:
Major dwellings

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