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76 Bank Street Maidstone Kent ME14 1SJ

25/501920/FULLFullApproved

Approved on 27 August 2025

Council decision: Application PermittedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Change of use of former night club to a restaurant including installation of a new extraction unit and flue.

Received
24 June 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
High Street
  1. Received24 Jun
  2. Validated24 Jun
  3. Consult.5 Aug
  4. Target29 Aug
  5. Decided27 Aug

Decided in 64 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at 76 Bank Street Maidstone Kent ME14 1SJ. Mid Kent has handled 5,216 applications of this type. This one was decided in 64 days, 8 days longer than Mid Kent's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area, with 20 listed buildings nearby. There have been 3 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 102 applications across High Street. We hold 1,563 applications in total for the ME14 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
ME14 1SJ
Application type
Full
Scale / size
Medium

Planning application dates

Date validated
24 June 2025
Consultation expiry
5 August 2025
Last date for comments
5 August 2025
Target decision date
29 August 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent address
FAO: Mr Abul Haque First Floor Office- A 2A Old Montague Street LONDON E1 5NG

Planning decision

Statutory period
66 days

Publicity

Last advertised
3 July 2025
Advertisement expiry
24 July 2025
Site notice start
15 July 2025
Site notice end
5 August 2025

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14008977
Documents
16

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

Also checked, none recorded (21)

flood storage 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, 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

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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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