Sandling Primary School, Ashburnham Road, Penenden Heath, Maidstone, Kent ME14 2JG
Proposal
Erection of a detached teaching annex to house two new classrooms and associated facilities, in order to provide improved accommodation for the existing school children, and the creation of a new paved access to connect the teaching annex to the existing access routes
- Received
- 29 September 2023
- Decided
- 11 December 2023 · Granted with Conditions
- Council
- Kent County Council
- ReceivedSubmitted29 Sep
- ValidatedValidated29 Sep
- Consult.Consultation19 Dec
- TargetTarget Date
- DecidedDecided11 Dec
Decided in 73 days (council typically 56)
This is a planning application at Sandling Primary School, Ashburnham Road, Penenden Heath, Maidstone, Kent ME14 2JG. Kent has handled 56 applications of this type and approves nearly all of them, typically deciding them in 66 days. This one was decided in 73 days, 7 days longer than Kent's median. The site is in a conservation area. There has been 1 other application at this address. We hold 1,515 applications in total for the ME14 postcode area.
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Planning history at this site
1 other application at this property, newest first.
Planning constraints
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- 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.
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