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10 Tonbridge Road Maidstone Kent ME16 8RP

25/501731/PNMAPrior Notification Class MAApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 25 June 2025

Council decision: Prior Approval GrantedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Prior notification for the change of use from Commercial, Business and Service (Use Class E) to 2no. flats (Use Class C3). For its prior approval to: Transport impacts of the development, particularly to ensure safe site access - Contamination risks in relation to the building - Flooding risks in relation to the building - Impacts of noise from commercial premises on the intended occupiers of the development - Where the building is located in a conservation area, and the development involves a change of use of the whole or part of the ground floor, the impact of that change of use on the character or sustainability of the conservation area - The provision of adequate natural light in all habitable rooms of the dwellinghouses - The impact on intended occupiers of the development of the introduction of residential use in an area the authority considers to be important for general or heavy industry, waste management, storage and distribution, or a mix of such uses; and where the development involves the loss of services provided by a registered nursery, or a health centre maintained under section 2 or 3 of the National Health Service Act -The impact on the local provision of the type of services lost - Where the development meets the fire risk condition, the fire safety impacts on the intended occupants of the building.

Received
30 April 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Allington And Bridge
  1. Received30 Apr
  2. Validated30 Apr
  3. Consult.6 Jun
  4. Target25 Jun
  5. Decided25 Jun

Decided in 56 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for a change of use at 10 Tonbridge Road Maidstone Kent ME16 8RP. Mid Kent has handled 1,141 applications of this type. This one was decided in 56 days. The site is in a conservation area. There have been 4 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 26 applications across Allington And Bridge. We hold 799 applications in total for the ME16 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
ME16 8RP
Application type
Prior Notification Class MA
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
30 April 2025
Consultation expiry
6 June 2025
Last date for comments
6 June 2025
Target decision date
25 June 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent address
FAO: Mrs Hayley Richardson Unit 55 Waterham Business Park Waterham ME13 9EJ

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Site notice start
16 May 2025
Site notice end
6 June 2025

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-13974894
Documents
11

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Brownfield land register: 15/503091Register site at or near this address · +3 more
  • 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 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 and heritage coasts.

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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