www.maidstone.gov.uk/localplan
Great Place to Live Maidstone has a growing population and we
must provide suitable housing for a range of ages, tastes and incomes. We will need a sustainable mix of housing for an ageing population, young people, gypsies and travellers, and families looking to remain in the area where they grew up. The plan includes principles of good design to make sure that new development complements existing buildings and communities.
The council will have to prove before a Planning Inspector that it has done all it can to meet the borough’s objectively assessed housing need. Consultants G L Hearn carried out the housing needs assessment for the
council, identifying a need for 19,600 homes for the period 2011-2031. If space cannot be found for this many homes, the council will have to submit evidence why this is the case – or risk having the Local Plan rejected.
More than 4,000 of these homes have already been built, have planning permission to be built or are waiting for legal agreements to complete planning permission.
The council’s priority is to use previously developed sites first. In the five years 2007 to 2012, 86% of housing in the borough was on brownfield sites.
Great Place
to Work Maidstone is the economic hub of Kent, with more businesses based here than anywhere else in Kent, contributing more than £3 billion to the national economy.
The local plan includes policies to protect businesses in Maidstone town centre, including new homes and leisure uses to stimulate demand.
Employment policies and sites will create jobs in construction and in the longer term as businesses expand or move into the borough.
Employment sites Mote Road, Maidstone (8,000m2)
South of Claygate, Pattenden Lane, Marden (6,800m2)
West of Wheelbarrow Industrial Estate, Pattenden Lane, Marden (14,500m2)
West of Barradale Farm, Maidstone Road, Headcorn (5,500m2)
Mixed sites Newnham Park, Bearsted Road, Maidstone (15,000m2 retail, 100,000m2 employment)
Maidstone East and sorting office, Sandling Road, Maidstone (210 homes, 10,000m2 retail)
King Street car park and AMF Bowling site, Maidstone (70 homes, 1,400m2 retail)
Clockhouse Farm, Heath Road, Coxheath (40 homes, 7,700m2 employment)
Former Syngenta Works, Hampstead Lane, Yalding (200 homes, 8,600m2 employment)
Gypsy and Traveller sites
1 Oak Lodge, Tilden Lane, Marden (2 pitches)
Little Boarden, Boarden Lane, Headcorn (2 pitches)
The Chances, Lughorse Lane, Hunton (4 pitches)
Hawthorn Farm, Pye Corner, Ulcombe (3 pitches)
Cherry Tree Farm, West Wood Road, Stockbury (2 pitches)
Flips Hole, South Street Road, Stockbury (5 pitches)
The Ash, Yelsted Road, Stockbury (5 pitches)
More sites A further call for sites for housing, gypsy and traveller pitches and travelling showpeople plots was made in March, closing on 4 April 2014.
Any sites which come forward as a result will be rigorously judged against the same criteria the council has used on all other sites. If any new sites are considered suitable for potential development there will be full public consultation on those sites in July and August 2014.
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