Issue - meetings

Outline Application: Redevelopment of existing garden furniture retail centre (with ancillary café) and commercial cattery and small pet boarding centre with 9 no. dwellings comprising 3 no. detached four bedroom houses and 6 no. semidetached three bedroom houses with associated alterations to existing access road, new garaging and parking facilities and surface water run off pond at Garden Centre rear of 400 Hermitage Lane, Maidstone.

RESOLVED:  That Outline Planning Permission be GRANTED in accordance with the submitted details, conditions, reasons and informatives set out in the report and supplementary report of the Director of Planning, Housing and Environmental Health subject to the addition of Condition

9. Notwithstanding the provisions of Article 3, Schedule 2, Part 1, Class E of the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) Order 2015 (including any Order revoking or re-enacting that Order, with or without modification) no doors or other means of enclosure shall be installed to the front elevation of the car ports. 

Reason:  To ensure that parking is provided and maintained in accordance with the Council’s adopted standards and enclosure of the car ports could reduce their use for vehicle parking.