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Walled Garden Mount Ephraim Staple Street Hernhill Faversham Kent ME13 9TX

24/501268/FULLFullApproved

Approved on 14 March 2025

Council decision: Application PermittedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Section 73 - Application for minor material amendment to approved plans condition 2 (to allow alterations to the layout of the proposed dwelling and outbuildings, including change of design of the proposed orangery and bike store and addition of a car port, and alterations to landscaping and parking arrangements) pursuant to 21/503441/FULL for - Erection of dwelling of exceptional quality of design (Para 79e) [now para 84], new access and associated works.

Received
15 April 2024
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Boughton And Courtenay
  1. Received15 Apr
  2. Validated15 Apr
  3. Consult.18 Nov
  4. Target14 Mar
  5. Decided14 Mar

Decided in 333 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application at Walled Garden Mount Ephraim Staple Street Hernhill Faversham Kent ME13 9TX. Mid Kent has handled 5,216 applications of this type. This one was decided in 333 days, 40 weeks longer than Mid Kent's typical decision time. The site is in the Staplestreet conservation area. There have been 5 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.

85% of full 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 9TX
Application type
Full
Scale / size
Medium
Parish
Hernhill

Planning application dates

Date validated
15 April 2024
Consultation expiry
23 May 2024
Last date for comments
18 November 2024
Target decision date
14 March 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent address
FAO: Mr Richard Hawkes The Bull Pen Saynden Farm Five Oak Lane Staplehurst TN12 0HX

Planning decision

Statutory period
333 days

Publicity

Last advertised
2 May 2024
Advertisement expiry
23 May 2024
Site notice start
30 April 2024
Site notice end
21 May 2024

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-12891250
Documents
35

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Staplestreet
  • 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

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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