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Wilford Court Blacketts Road Tonge Kent ME9 9AS

14/500519/LAWPROLawful Development Cert. (Proposed)Refused
Outline / PiP

Refused on 22 January 2015

Council decision: Application RefusedDelegated (officer decision)

Proposal

Change of use for building from a residential children's home to a non-residential education unit. Home is currently registered with OFSTED as a school for 2 children, plan is to increase this to 16.Alterations to existing building to provide extra W.C. facilities.

Received
12 June 2014
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Teynham And Lynsted
  1. Received12 Jun
  2. Validated12 Jun
  3. Consult.8 Aug
  4. Target7 Aug
  5. Decided22 Jan

Decided in 224 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for a change of use at Wilford Court Blacketts Road Tonge Kent ME9 9AS. Mid Kent has handled 1,141 applications of this type. This one was decided in 224 days, 24 weeks longer than Mid Kent's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 40 applications across Teynham And Lynsted. We hold 1,173 applications in total for the ME9 postcode area.

83% of outline 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

Postcode
ME9 9AS
Application type
Lawful Development Cert. (Proposed)
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Tonge

Planning application dates

Date validated
12 June 2014
Last date for comments
8 August 2014
Target decision date
7 August 2014
Application expires
7 August 2014

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-03458075
Documents
5
Constraints
5

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)
Also checked, none recorded (24)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, Article 4 directions, 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, National Landscapes, 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

Contains public sector information from planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG and local planning authorities), licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© 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: Mid Kent

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