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Amber House Otham Street Otham Kent ME15 8RL

23/504664/LDCEXLawful Development Cert. (Existing)Approved
Lawful development certificate

Approved on 11 December 2023

Council decision: Application PermittedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Lawful Development Certificate (Existing) for the digging of a 3m long, 600mm wide and 1.3m deep trench and the filling it with concrete to form a foundation.

Received
17 October 2023
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Downswood And Otham
  1. Received17 Oct
  2. Validated17 Oct
  3. Consult.
  4. Target12 Dec
  5. Decided11 Dec

Decided in 55 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at Amber House Otham Street Otham Kent ME15 8RL. Mid Kent has handled 419 applications of this type. This one was decided in 55 days. The site is in a conservation area, with 4 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. We hold 1,478 applications in total for the ME15 postcode area.

83% of amendment 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 8RL
Application type
Lawful Development Cert. (Existing)
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Otham

Planning application dates

Date validated
17 October 2023
Target decision date
12 December 2023

Applicant and agent

Agent address
FAO Miss Nicola Harvey Suite 3 Franklin House 10 Best Lane Canterbury CT1 2JB

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-12523857
Documents
10

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Otham
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (23)

flood storage 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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© 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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