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Sittingbourne Mill & Wharf Sites Adjacent Milton Road/Mill Way/Charlotte Street Sittingbourne Kent ME10 3ET

17/500713/FULLFullApproved

Approved on 2 November 2017

Council decision: Application PermittedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Minor material amendment to condition 5 of outline planning approval SW/11/0159 (Hybrid application seeking; outline planning permission (Phases 3,4 & 5) for up to 1,200sqm of leisure use floorspace, 250sqm of community floorspace, 150 residential units, in buildings ranging from 2 to 4 storeys in height, together with car and cycle parking; and incorporating detailed planning permission (Phase 1) for a retail food store of 6,682sqm, petrol filling station of 72sqm together with associated landscaping, car and cycle parking & full landscaping detail for new parkland areas (Phases 2 & 3). ) - to amend the siting of the housing blocks to match the detailed engineered design

Received
9 February 2017
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Chalkwell
  1. Received9 Feb
  2. Validated9 Feb
  3. Consult.27 Mar
  4. Target2 Nov
  5. Decided2 Nov

Decided in 266 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application at Sittingbourne Mill & Wharf Sites Adjacent Milton Road/Mill Way/Charlotte Street Sittingbourne Kent ME10 3ET. Mid Kent has handled 5,216 applications of this type. This one was decided in 266 days, 30 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 35 applications across Chalkwell. We hold 2,142 applications in total for the ME10 postcode area.

85% of full 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
ME10 3ET
Application type
Full
Scale / size
Large
Number of dwellings
150

Planning application dates

Date validated
9 February 2017
Consultation expiry
27 March 2017
Last date for comments
27 March 2017
Target decision date
2 November 2017
Permission expires
2 November 2020

Applicant and agent

Agent address
FAO. Mr Andrew Wakefield 23 High Street Wroughton Swindon SN4 9JX

Planning decision

Statutory period
266 days

Publicity

Last advertised
3 March 2017
Advertisement expiry
24 March 2017
Site notice start
6 March 2017
Site notice end
27 March 2017

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-05818676
Documents
27
Constraints
7

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)
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

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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: Mid Kent

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