1. Land at Campfield Farm as identified on the Policies Map, is allocated for the development of approximately 30 dwellings. The following conditions are considered appropriate to be met before development is permitted.

Design and Layout

2. Development proposals will be of a high standard of design incorporating traditional village typology with the use of vernacular materials.

3. The development shall ensure that it does not adversely affect the setting and character of the adjoining countryside.

4. This shall incorporate open spaces and new landscaping adjacent to areas of existing woodland to the north of the site.

5. External lighting on the site should be carefully designed so that it minimises landscape and ecological impacts.

6. Layout of the development will be subject to the results of an archaeological pre-determination assessment.

7. The development shall ensure that an appropriate buffer is provided to the conservation area to the east.

8. Design and layout of the site shall be informed by a landscape and visual impact assessment.

Landscape/Ecology

9. 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.

10. Existing tree/hedgerow margins should be retained/ enhanced where possible in order to provide the opportunity for biodiversity habitat creation/enhancement.

11. Development will be subject to strategy to incorporate an appropriate level of biodiversity net gain within the broad location in accordance with national and local policy.

12. The layout and design of development shall be informed by 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.

13. The development proposals are designed to take into account the results of a detailed arboricultural survey, tree constraints plan and tree retention/ protection plans.

14. Existing tree/hedgerow margins should be retained/ enhanced where possible in order to provide the opportunity for biodiversity habitat creation/enhancement.

Access, Highways, and Transportation

15. The development shall ensure that a suitable vehicular access onto Haste Hill Road is secured and shall demonstrate that an appropriate access to third party sites on the shared access is maintained.

16. The access shall be designed to a standard necessary to ensure that appropriate safety and capacity standards are met, whilst ensuring that the rural setting of the site is not adversely affected.

17. The development shall ensure that appropriate improvements to pedestrian infrastructure are secured, whilst also ensuring that the character and functionality of Public Right of Way KM69 is not adversely affected.

Open Space

18. The development shall provide on-site amenity green space in accordance with policies LPRSP13 and LPRINF1, with a minimum of 0.07 hectares on-site incorporating children’s play, in a manner that contributes positively to the future community.

19. Development of the site will enable the delivery and/or enhancement of a minimum of 0.5 hectares of off-site semi/ natural open or allotment space in the vicinity of the site.

Utilities Infrastructure

20. 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.

21. 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