A council is to purchase a development with outline permission for 23 homes – even though as planned four of them would not meet today’s minimum space standards. Planning permission was granted for 65 units to be built on the site off Tonbridge Road in Maidstone back in 2015, in three phases. Cabinet members of Maidstone council met last Wednesday to consider the purchase of one of those phases – for 19 houses and four one-bedroom maisonettes – which is yet to be constructed. The move would be part of the target set by the previous Conservative administration to provide the borough with 1,000 …
