Kent Science Park Shimmin Road Sittingbourne Kent ME9 8BZ
Approved on 14 May 2025
Council decision: Application PermittedDelegated (officer decision)
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Proposal
Approval of reserved matters (appearance, landscaping, layout, and scale sought) for construction of 2 commercial buildings (Plot 1 and 3), accesses and roads, parking, associated services, infrastructure, earthworks and landscaping, pursuant to 20/503707/HYBRID.
- Received
- 19 December 2024
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- Maidstone Borough Council
- Ward
- West Downs
- ReceivedReceived19 Dec
- ValidatedValidated19 Dec
- Consult.Consultation18 Apr
- TargetTarget Date16 Apr
- DecidedDecided14 May
Decided in 146 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is an outline application at Kent Science Park Shimmin Road Sittingbourne Kent ME9 8BZ. Mid Kent has handled 1,141 applications of this type. This one was decided in 146 days, 13 weeks longer than Mid Kent's typical decision time. There have been 11 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 56 applications across West Downs. We hold 1,168 applications in total for the ME9 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
- ME9 8BZ
- Application type
- Approval of Reserved Matters
- Scale / size
- Medium
- Parish
- Milstead
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 19 December 2024
- Consultation expiry
- 23 January 2025
- Last date for comments
- 18 April 2025
- Target decision date
- 16 April 2025
Applicant and agent
- Agent address
- FAO: Mr Ben Dakin Montagu Evans LLP 70 St Mary Axe London EC3A 8BE
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 118 days
Publicity
- Last advertised
- 2 January 2025
- Advertisement expiry
- 23 January 2025
- Site notice start
- 20 December 2024
- Site notice end
- 10 January 2025
Additional information
- Planning Portal ID
- PP-13524336
- Documents
- 48
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Ancient woodlandNext to the site
- Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (22)
flood storage areas, conservation areas, 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, 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.
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