Land Adjacent To Walbrook Business Park Queenborough Road Halfway Kent Data via plota.co.uk

26/503529/FULL - Full Awaiting decision

Proposal

Erection of 3no. two storey buildings containing 4no. business units (Use Class B2/B8), together with associated access, vehicle parking, servicing and landscaping. Data via plota.co.uk

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View original council record ↗Last checked 7 Oct 2026, 07:05

Application progress

✓

Received

around 25 Sept 2026

Decision

Expected by 25 Dec 2026

Under consideration

No decision has been issued yet. Plota predicts a decision around 20 Nov 2026, from Swale's recent commercial premises.

Comments are open until 29 Oct 2026

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Documents 13

Site constraints 6

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 3b

Not 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) 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 2

Where habitat is joined up enough to work as a network. Context, not a constraint on its own.

Also on the record

Nature improvement area: Greater Thames Marshes; Ramsar wetland 462 m away: Medway Estuary & Marshes; SSSI 462 m away: Tower Hill to Cockham Wood SSSI.

Not affected

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

Checked on 6 October 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: Swale
Application type: Full
Received: around 25 Sept 2026
Validated: 25 Sept 2026
Ward: Queenborough And Halfway
Parish: Queenborough
Case officer: Show
Target decision: 25 Dec 2026
Decision level: Delegated Decision
Applicant: Show
Agent: Ian Mutch Dipl Arch (Hons)

Decision outlook

Day 14 of the 56-day target. Swale usually decides commercial premises by day 56.

prediction

Day 1442 days to the 56-day target

57%decided within 8 weeks

87%approved

58decided in the last year

Plota live figures for commercial premises decided by Swale in the last twelve months, from validation. Swale decision record →

Consultation & key dates

Alt. reference: PP-15224409
Planning Portal ref: PP-15224409
Comments by: 29 Oct 2026
Site or press notice: 8 Oct 2026
Statutory expiry: 25 Dec 2026
Env. assessment: No

Swale

Planning Authority Score

2.3/10

Poor

#263 of 296 councils

Relevant to this application:

Householder decisions

Swale is one of the slowest councils in England for householder decisions, ranking #275 out of 296. The council extends the time limit on 70% of applications - one of the highest rates in England. Expect your application to take longer than the standard deadline. Householder applications are slightly more likely to be approved here (94%) than the national average (90%).

Among the slowest councils in England

for householder decisions

These figures are council-wide context, not a prediction for this application. View full council performance

Swale decision statistics

Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026

89%

Overall approval rate

Above avg (87%) #143 of 296

94%

Householder approved

Above avg (90%) #120 of 296

37%

Decided in 8 weeks

Below avg (63%) #275 of 296

70%

Extended time limit

Above avg (41%) #286 of 296

72%

Minor dwellings approved

81 decided (1-9 homes)

84%

Major dwellings approved

25 decided (10+ homes)

95%

Change of use approved

22 decided

658

Total decisions

71 refused in the year to March 2026

Land Adjacent To Walbrook Business Park Queenborough Road Halfway Kent Data via plota.co.uk

Proposal

Application progress

Documents 13

Statements & assessments 7

Plans & drawings 2

Consultation & comments 3

Other documents 1

Site constraints 6

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