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Penny Cottage Yelsted Road Yelsted Sittingbourne Kent ME9 7UT

18/506361/FULLFullApproved

Approved on 1 February 2019

Council decision: Application PermittedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Demolition of existing garage (not listed) and erection of a new garage, including utility room, and WC

Received
12 December 2018
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
North Downs
  1. Received12 Dec
  2. Validated12 Dec
  3. Consult.18 Jan
  4. Target6 Feb
  5. Decided1 Feb

Decided in 51 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for demolition at Penny Cottage Yelsted Road Yelsted Sittingbourne Kent ME9 7UT. Mid Kent has handled 5,216 applications of this type. This one was decided in 51 days, 5 days quicker than Mid Kent's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area, with 2 listed buildings nearby. There have been 2 other applications at this address. We hold 1,168 applications in total for the ME9 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
ME9 7UT
Application type
Full
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Stockbury

Planning application dates

Date validated
12 December 2018
Consultation expiry
18 January 2019
Last date for comments
18 January 2019
Target decision date
6 February 2019
Permission expires
1 February 2022

Applicant and agent

Agent address
FAO: Mr Giles Fitch Unit 12 Riverside Business And Craft Centre West Hythe CT21 4NB

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Last advertised
28 December 2018
Advertisement expiry
18 January 2019
Site notice start
18 December 2018
Site notice end
8 January 2019

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-07466993
Documents
22
Constraints
9

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Listed building: Grade II: Penny CottageOn this site
  • National Landscape (AONB): Kent Downs
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (22)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, 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, 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.

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Associated applications

  1. 2018
    12 Dec

    Demolition of existing garage (not listed) and erection of a new garage, including utility room, and WC

    This applicationApprovedFull18/506361/FULL
  2. 2018
    6 Dec

    Listed Building Consent for demolition of existing garage

    ApprovedListed building consentFiled alongside18/506362/LBC

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