1. Land west of Lodge Road as identified on the Policies Map, is allocated for the development of approximately 78 dwellings on circa 3.8 hectares and approximately 1,000m2 of employment on circa 0.3 hectares within the north eastern part of the site. The following conditions are considered appropriate to be met before development is permitted.

Layout and Design

2. The layout of new homes and open spaces shall be designed to enable integration with the adjacent development site (H1 (48)), together with vehicular, cycle and pedestrian connections.

3. New dwellings shall provide an appropriate level of separation from existing and proposed commercial uses and order to ensure that residential amenity is protected and to ensure that the ongoing viability of commercial uses is not prejudiced.

4. The Public Right of Way on the northern boundary will be preserved and enhanced.

5. The residential elements shall be defined by distinct character areas, incorporating a variety of typologies, materials, landscaping and street scenes.

6. Site design and layout shall be informed by a local historic impact assessment.

7. Appropriate buffers shall be provided between the residential and commercial areas.

Landscape/Ecology

8. A phase 1 habitat survey will be required, which may as a result require on and/or-off site mitigation for the existing habitat of local fauna/ flora.

9. Existing tree/hedgerow margins should be retained/ enhanced in order to provide the opportunity for biodiversity habitat creation/ enhancement. Public access to such areas would normally be limited.

10. Development will be subject to a site-wide strategy to incorporate an appropriate level of biodiversity net gain in accordance with national and local policy.

11. The landscape scheme shall incorporate adequate buffers to both the existing and future employment uses and the railway line.

12. Principal traffic routes through the site shall incorporate tree planting.

13. The development proposals shall be designed to take into account the results of a landscape and visual impact assessment undertaken in accordance with the principles of guidance in place at the time of the submission of an application.

Access, Highways and Transportation

14. Vehicular access shall be provided from Lodge Road. The site will facilitate future pedestrian and vehicle connections to the residential development to the west of the site if possible.

15. The developer shall liaise with KCC Highways regarding and measures necessary to manage through traffic/ rat running, including consideration the cumulative effect of developments on the A229 corridor and mitigations will be required to address this.

16. The access to the proposed commercial uses will be via the Lodge Road spur adjacent to the Clinton Business Centre.

17. The development shall enable measures to ensure that Lodge Road provides a safe and attractive pedestrian route between the site and Station Approach.

Open Space

18. Provision of new open space on/off site provisions and/or contributions towards off-site provision/improvements in accordance with policies LPRSP13 and LPRINF1.

19. On-site provision of open space across the two parcels shall be coordinated through a masterplan and shall include a minimum of 0.25 hectares of green amenity and play space and a minimum of 0.6 hectares of semi/natural open space.

20. Balancing ponds and swales shall not be counted towards on-site semi/natural open space needs unless it can be demonstrated that they provide appropriate and undisturbed ecological habitat.

Utilities Infrastructure

21. The applicant is to demonstrate that adequate connections to the nearest points of the network are achievable and that adequate capacity exists/can be created for all utilities.

22. Where there may be limited capacity in the utility network, the occupation of the development will be phased to align with the delivery of infrastructure.

For more information, please visit Maidstone’s Local Plan Maidstone Borough Council Local Plan 2021-2038