Matts Hill Farm, Matts Hill Road, Hartlip, Sittingbourne, Kent, ME9 7UY
Approved on 9 February 2012
Council decision: Grant of Conditional PPPlanning committee
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Proposal
Change of use from agricultural bunded open storage area to B8 bunded open storage area.
- Received
- 8 December 2010
- Decision level
- Planning committee
- Council
- Maidstone Borough Council
- Ward
- Hartlip, Newington And Upchurch
- ReceivedReceived8 Dec
- ValidatedValidated8 Dec
- Consult.Consultation
- TargetTarget Date9 Feb
- DecidedDecided9 Feb
Decided in 428 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is a full planning application for a change of use at Matts Hill Farm, Matts Hill Road, Hartlip, Sittingbourne, Kent, ME9 7UY. Mid Kent has handled 5,216 applications of this type. This one was decided in 428 days, 53 weeks longer than Mid Kent's typical decision time. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 86 applications across Hartlip, Newington And Upchurch. We hold 1,168 applications in total for the ME9 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
- ME9 7UY
- Application type
- Full
- Scale / size
- Medium
- Parish
- Hartlip
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 8 December 2010
- Target decision date
- 9 February 2012
- Committee meeting
- 2 February 2012
- Application expires
- 2 February 2011
- Permission expires
- 8 February 2015
Applicant and agent
- Agent address
- Miller Ankas Ltd 4 New Court 1 New Road Rochester Kent ME1 1BD
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 428 days
Additional information
- Documents
- 21
- Constraints
- 5
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- National Landscape (AONB): Kent Downs
- 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, 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.
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Planning history at this site
3 other applications at this property, newest first.
- 20118 Sep
Retrospective application for change of use of agricultural building Unit 1 to B1(c) Light Industrial and B2…
WithdrawnFullSW/11/0839 - 201029 Oct
Retrospective application for change of use of agricultural buildings. Units 1 & 2 to B2 general industrial…
RefusedFullSW/10/1274 - 200716 May
Lawful Development Certificate (Existing) for construction of earth bunds to form earth enclosure
ApprovedLawful Development Cert. (Existing)SW/07/0577
Source: Mid Kent
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