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The Dirty Habit Upper Street Hollingbourne Kent ME17 1UW

25/504347/FULLFullApproved

Approved on 23 December 2025

Council decision: Application PermittedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Conversion and change of use of first and second floor rooms to bed and breakfast accommodation with 7 bedrooms. Erection of a single storey infill rear extension, siting of a detached fridge/freezer unit, along with minor alterations to parking arrangements, access steps, and existing fence line.

Received
29 October 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Harrietsham, Lenham And North Downs
  1. Received29 Oct
  2. Validated29 Oct
  3. Consult.1 Dec
  4. Target24 Dec
  5. Decided23 Dec

Decided in 55 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a rear extension at The Dirty Habit Upper Street Hollingbourne Kent ME17 1UW. Mid Kent has handled 5,216 applications of this type. This one was decided in 55 days. The site is in a conservation area, with 7 listed buildings nearby. There have been 3 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 122 applications across Harrietsham, Lenham And North Downs. We hold 1,307 applications in total for the ME17 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
ME17 1UW
Application type
Full
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Hollingbourne

Planning application dates

Date validated
29 October 2025
Consultation expiry
1 December 2025
Last date for comments
1 December 2025
Target decision date
24 December 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent address
FAO: Mr James Batson Grove Dairy Farm Bobbing Hill Sitttingbourne ME9 8NY

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Last advertised
6 November 2025
Advertisement expiry
27 November 2025
Site notice start
10 November 2025
Site notice end
1 December 2025

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14389548
Documents
39

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Hollingbourne, Upper Street
  • Listed building: Grade II: Former King's Head InnOn this site · +2 more
  • National Landscape (AONB): Kent Downs
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
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, SSSIs, Special Areas of Conservation, Special Protection Areas, Ramsar sites, ancient woodland, national nature reserves, local nature reserves, heritage coasts and brownfield registers.

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© 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.

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