A house builder is arguing a few metres of kerb laid three years ago is enough to say work has started on a 62-home development – so it doesn’t need planning permission again. It is more than 11 years since Chailey Homes first submitted an outline application to Maidstone council, seeking permission to build 62 homes on land off Postley Road in Tovil near Maidstone. The site is actually on one side of the single-width track which runs from Redstart Avenue, past the Richmond Way green space, past the entrance to the bungalow known as The Lodge, and heads towards Hayle Place. Chailey Homes went …
