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Leeds Castle Ashford Road Hollingbourne Kent ME17 1PL

23/501265/LBCListed Building ConsentApproved

Approved on 22 June 2023

Council decision: Application PermittedDelegated (officer decision)

Proposal

Listed Building Consent to improve wheelchair access into the main castle, including lifting of existing paving stones, to be reset on a sloped bed and re-hanging of main entrance door, and to provide a new service duct and water main within a shallow trench over the Moat Bridge.

Received
27 April 2023
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Leeds
  1. Received27 Apr
  2. Validated27 Apr
  3. Consult.8 Jun
  4. Target22 Jun
  5. Decided22 Jun

Decided in 56 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a heritage application at Leeds Castle Ashford Road Hollingbourne Kent ME17 1PL. Mid Kent has handled 639 applications of this type. This one was decided in 56 days. The site is in a conservation area, with 1 listed building nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. We hold 1,310 applications in total for the ME17 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
ME17 1PL
Application type
Listed Building Consent
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Broomfield And Kingswood

Planning application dates

Date validated
27 April 2023
Consultation expiry
8 June 2023
Last date for comments
8 June 2023
Target decision date
22 June 2023

Applicant and agent

Agent address
FAO: Mr Andy Burrell Western Road Haywards Heath West Sussex RH16 3LH

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Last advertised
11 May 2023
Advertisement expiry
8 June 2023

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-11985958
Documents
14

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

  • Registered park and garden: Leeds Castle
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (23)

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 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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