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Tunstall Church Of England Primary School Tunstall Road Tunstall Sittingbourne Kent ME9 8DX

19/500051/LBCListed Building ConsentApproved

Approved on 5 August 2019

Council decision: Application PermittedPlanning committee

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Listed Building Consent for conversion, part demolition and extension of former school building to provide two 4 bedroom dwellings.

Received
14 January 2019
Decision level
Planning committee
Ward
West Downs
  1. Received14 Jan
  2. Validated14 Jan
  3. Consult.5 Feb
  4. Target30 May
  5. Decided5 Aug

Decided in 203 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a heritage application for demolition at Tunstall Church Of England Primary School Tunstall Road Tunstall Sittingbourne Kent ME9 8DX. Mid Kent has handled 639 applications of this type. This one was decided in 203 days, 21 weeks longer than Mid Kent's typical decision time. The site is in the Tunstall conservation area, with 5 listed buildings nearby. There have been 5 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 56 applications across West Downs. We hold 1,175 applications in total for the ME9 postcode area.

68% of heritage 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 8DX
Application type
Listed Building Consent
Scale / size
Medium
Parish
Tunstall

Planning application dates

Date validated
14 January 2019
Consultation expiry
15 February 2019
Last date for comments
5 February 2019
Target decision date
30 May 2019
Committee meeting
18 July 2019
Permission expires
5 August 2022

Applicant and agent

Agent address
FAO: Mr Peter Cooper 163 Brompton Farm Road Strood Rochester Kent ME2 3RH

Planning decision

Statutory period
136 days

Publicity

Last advertised
25 January 2019
Advertisement expiry
15 February 2019
Site notice start
22 January 2019
Site notice end
12 February 2019

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-07502943
Documents
40
Constraints
7

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Tunstall
  • Listed building: Grade II: The Village SchoolOn or next to this site
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (22)

flood storage 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, 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.

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