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Forge Farm Staple Street Hernhill Faversham Kent ME13 9UD

20/504753/PNQCLAPrior Notification Class QApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 8 January 2021

Council decision: Prior Approval Not RequiredPlanning committee

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Prior notification for the change of use of building and land within its curtilage to 1 no. dwellinghouse and associated operation development. For it's prior approval to: Transport and Highways impacts of the development; Noise impacts of the development; Contamination risks on the site; Flooding risks on the site; Whether the location or siting of the building makes it otherwise impractical or undesirable for the use of the building to change from agricultural use to C3 (dwellinghouses); Design and external appearance impacts on the building, and Provision of adequate natural light in all habitable rooms of the dwellinghouses.

Received
14 October 2020
Decision level
Planning committee
Ward
Boughton And Courtenay
  1. Received14 Oct
  2. Validated14 Oct
  3. Consult.13 Jan
  4. Target8 Jan
  5. Decided8 Jan

Decided in 86 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for a change of use at Forge Farm Staple Street Hernhill Faversham Kent ME13 9UD. Mid Kent has handled 1,141 applications of this type. This one was decided in 86 days, 4 weeks longer than Mid Kent's typical decision time. The site is in 6 listed buildings nearby. There have been 2 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 87 applications across Boughton And Courtenay. We hold 1,018 applications in total for the ME13 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
ME13 9UD
Application type
Prior Notification Class Q
Scale / size
Medium
Parish
Hernhill

Planning application dates

Date validated
14 October 2020
Last date for comments
13 January 2021
Target decision date
8 January 2021
Committee meeting
7 January 2021

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Mrs Beth Watts 77 Commercial Road Paddock Wood TN12 6DS

Planning decision

Statutory period
86 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-09143611
Documents
17
Constraints
1

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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© 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.

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Associated applications

  1. 2022
    26 Aug

    Conversion of agricultural building into a single dwellinghouse, including insertion of rear dormer…

    ApprovedFullRelated22/504165/FULL
  2. 2020
    14 Oct

    Prior notification for the change of use of building and land within its curtilage to 1 no. dwellinghouse and…

    This applicationApprovedOutline20/504753/PNQCLA

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