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Oakwood Park Grammar School, Oakwood Park, Tonbridge Road, Maidstone, Kent ME16 8AH

KCC/MA/0020/2026OtherApproved

Approved on 23 July 2026

Council decision: Granted with Conditions21 conditions

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Extension of existing Science Block at ground floor level; erection of new detached 3 Court Sports Hall and General Teaching Block; installation of new 4 court MUGA and 22 space parking area to facilitate a 1FE expansion of the school

Submitted
18 March 2026
  1. Received18 Mar
  2. Validated18 Mar
  3. Consult.28 May
  4. Target
  5. Decided23 Jul

Decided in 127 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a planning application for an extension at Oakwood Park Grammar School, Oakwood Park, Tonbridge Road, Maidstone, Kent ME16 8AH. Kent has handled 56 applications of this type. This one was decided in 127 days, 10 weeks longer than Kent's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area. There have been 3 other applications at this address. We hold 799 applications in total for the ME16 postcode area.

100% of all applications at Kent County Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
ME16 8AH
Application type
Other
Scale / size
Small
District
Maidstone Borough Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
18 March 2026
Consultation expiry
28 May 2026
Consultation end
28 May 2026
Committee meeting
22 July 2026

Additional information

Documents
53

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

Possibly incomplete for this council: conservation areas, Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders and brownfield registers.

Also checked, none recorded (20)

flood storage areas, listed buildings, green belt, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, registered parks and gardens, registered battlefields, Heritage at Risk entries, nutrient neutrality catchments, national parks, National Landscapes, SSSIs, Special Areas of Conservation, Special Protection Areas, Ramsar sites, ancient woodland, national nature reserves, local nature reserves and heritage coasts.

A guide only, from official open data; it is not a planning search. Flood zones cover rivers and sea, not surface water.

Data © Crown copyright and others · sources and licences

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© Historic England 2026. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. The Historic England GIS Data contained in this material was obtained on 2026-11-03. The most publicly available up to date Historic England GIS Data can be obtained from HistoricEngland.org.uk.

© Natural England copyright. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Flood Map for Planning, Open Government Licence v3.0.

Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Source: Kent

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