Chilston Sand Pit, Sandway Road, Sandway, Maidstone, Kent ME17 2LU

KCC/MA/0043/2023ConditionsApproved

Discharge / amendments

Approved on 24 May 2023

Council decision: Granted with Conditions

Approximate location: the centre of the postcode, not the exact property.

Proposal

Variation of condition 2 of planning permission MA/21/504951 to amend the date for completion of restoration by a further period of 9 months (i.e. until 31 December 2023)

Submitted: 24 March 2023
Council: Kent County Council

ReceivedSubmitted24 Mar
ValidatedValidated24 Mar
Consult.Consultation3 May
TargetTarget Date
DecidedDecided24 May

Decided in 61 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to vary a condition at Chilston Sand Pit, Sandway Road, Sandway, Maidstone, Kent ME17 2LU. Kent has handled 234 applications of this type. This one was decided in 61 days, 5 days longer than Kent's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. We hold 1,310 applications in total for the ME17 postcode area.

100% of conditions 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: ME17 2LU
Application type: Conditions
Scale / size: Small
District: Maidstone Borough Council

Planning application dates

Date validated: 24 March 2023
Consultation expiry: 3 May 2023
Consultation end: 3 May 2023

Additional information

Documents: 6

Site constraints

Checking the site

2/3

Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

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.

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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.

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Source: Kent

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