Location 

The site is a parcel of land of just under 4 hectares in size. It is enclosed by Blowers Wood and Chapel Hill Wood to the west and south and by Hoath Way and Maidstone Road to the north and east. There is a single existing vehicular access from Maidstone Road.

The site is linked to Lambsfrith Grove to the north via an existing Public Right of Way which provides pedestrian access to the Hempstead Valley Shopping Centre located approximately 500m to the north of the site. The Centre hosts a supermarket, gym and petrol station alongside numerous retail and food establishments.

The site is connected via established pedestrian footways to nearby public bus stops along Wigmore Road to the east and at Hempstead Valley Shopping Centre, providing frequent services to Chatham, Maidstone, Wigmore and Twydall, The National Express bus also stops at Hempstead Valley, taking passengers to Dover and Victoria.

The A278 provides access into the Medway Towns and the nearby M2 provides direct links to surrounding towns as well as the M25 and London. 

The Proposed Development

We are proposing to build 88 homes within a high quality, inclusive and safe development which respects and retains the existing site boundaries and provides new landscaping and biodiversity enhancements.

The scheme would include a mix of terraced, semi-detached and detached dwellings which are two storeys in height as well as nine apartments in a single block of two and a half storeys high. The dwellings for market sale (66 in total) would be a mixture of 2, 3, 4 and 5 bed houses.

25% of the dwellings (22 properties) would be affordable homes. The affordable dwellings would be a mixture of 1, 2 and 3 bedroom properties and would include First Homes and affordable properties.

Ample on plot parking spaces would be provided along with visitor spaces spread throughout the development.

The houses which face the A278 have been designed to screen the rest of the development and garden areas from road noise.

The site would include a pumping station and electrical substation. Connections would be made into the surrounding water and electrical infrastructure, which have capacity to serve the development.