County council development planning permission

You can apply for permission for a county council development online, on CD or by post. You must send at least 4 paper copies with your application. Your case officer will tell you if you need to send more.

Use our validation checklists before you submit your application for regulation 3 guidance and to check you've got everything you need.

Apply for planning permission on the Planning Portal

Forms and guidance documents

Send paper applications to Planning Applications, Planning and Environment, 1st floor, Invicta House, County Hall, Maidstone, Kent ME14 1XX.

Full planning permission

Also needed for change of use of land or existing buildings (such as changing farmland into a school playground).

Download the full planning permission form.
Read help notes on filling in the full planning permission form.

Outline planning permission

Needed if you want to find out whether a development is acceptable in principle.

Some matters reserved

Download planning permission some matters reserved form.
Read help notes on filling in the outline planning permission some matters reserved form

All matters reserved

Reserved matters following outline approval

Needed if you want further details approved (layout, scale, appearance, access and landscaping) once you've had outline planning permission.

Download the reserved matters form
Read help notes on filling in the reserved matters form.

Removal or variation of details by condition

Needed if you want to change conditions in a planning application you've already submitted. Conditions are the requirements that may limit, control or direct how the development is carried out.