Bellway Homes has submitted a detailed planning application to build 421 homes on land west of Church Road, in Otham - despite not yet having obtained outline consent for the site.

An outline application was due to be decided by Maidstone's planning committee in October last year but was deferred after KCC raised highways objections.

The site is one of six near the Sutton Road already allocated for development in Maidstone's adopted Local Plan. In total - if approved - they will provide an extra 2,651 homes in the area.

One of the applications - for 302 houses at Bicknor Farm - goes before the planning committee this Thursday.

Bellway is proposing a looped main road that will both enter and exit onto Church Road.

The site will wrap around the Grade I listed St Nicholas Church and is designed to give a community orchard, a village green and a square.

A total of 787 car parking spaces are envisaged, with plans to bring the local bus route onto the estate.

Application 19/506182 refers.

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