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East Barn & West Barn Elmscroft Farmyard Charlton Lane West Farleigh Maidstone Kent ME15 0NY

21/505751/PNQCLAPrior Notification Class QRefused
Outline / PiP

Refused on 21 December 2021

Council decision: Prior Approval RefusedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Prior notification for the change of use of East Barn and West Barn to 2(no) dwellings and associated operation development. For its 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. - Provision of adequate natural light in all habitable rooms of the dwellinghouses.

Received
26 October 2021
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Coxheath And Hunton
  1. Received26 Oct
  2. Validated26 Oct
  3. Consult.3 Dec
  4. Target21 Dec
  5. Decided21 Dec

Decided in 56 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for a change of use at East Barn & West Barn Elmscroft Farmyard Charlton Lane West Farleigh Maidstone Kent ME15 0NY. Mid Kent has handled 1,141 applications of this type. This one was decided in 56 days. The site is in a conservation area, with 1 listed building nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. We hold 1,478 applications in total for the ME15 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
ME15 0NY
Application type
Prior Notification Class Q
Scale / size
Small
Parish
West Farleigh

Planning application dates

Date validated
26 October 2021
Consultation expiry
3 December 2021
Last date for comments
3 December 2021
Target decision date
21 December 2021

Applicant and agent

Agent address
FAO Mr Joe Alderman 303 Downe House High Street Orpington BR6 0NN

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Site notice start
12 November 2021
Site notice end
3 December 2021

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-10322088
Documents
27

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

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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