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White Horse Wood Country Park Thurnham

03/1315Regulation 3Approved

Approved on 30 July 2003

Council decision: No ObjectionsDelegated (officer decision)

Proposal

A consultation with Maidstone Borough Council by Kent County Council for the installation of three wooden sculptures; each individual piece being carved from single oak trucks. Each piece will stand 2m, 4m and 6 m respectively. The collective sculpture will be located at the entrance of the country park, as shown on the location plan and illustrative sketch received on 02.07.03.

Received
30 June 2003
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Detling And Thurnham
  1. Received30 Jun
  2. Validated2 Jul
  3. Consult.
  4. Target30 Jul
  5. Decided30 Jul

Decided in 28 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a planning application at White Horse Wood Country Park Thurnham. Mid Kent has handled 180 applications of this type. This one was decided in 30 days, 4 weeks quicker than Mid Kent's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area. There are no previous applications recorded at this address.

87% of all applications at Maidstone Borough Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Application type
Regulation 3
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Thurnham

Planning application dates

Date validated
2 July 2003
Target decision date
30 July 2003
Decision issued
31 July 2003
Application expires
27 August 2003

Applicant and agent

Agent address
First Floor - Invicta House, County Hall, Maidstone, Kent, ME14 1XX

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Documents
2

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

  • Article 4 direction: Land North of Thurnham
  • National Landscape (AONB): Kent Downs
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (22)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, tree preservation orders, 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, SSSIs, Special Areas of Conservation, Special Protection Areas, Ramsar sites, ancient woodland, national nature reserves, local nature reserves, heritage coasts and brownfield registers.

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.

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