Lidsing Garden Community Consultation

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Help shape the development of the Supplementary Planning Document for Lidsing Garden Settlement.

In March 2024 Maidstone Borough Council adopted the Maidstone Local Plan Review 2021-2038. This document allocates sites for development and policies to manage that development. One of the sites allocated was the Lidsing Garden Settlement to the north of the Borough.

The Lidsing Garden Settlement allocation includes:

  • 2,000 new homes to be built (40% to be affordable homes)
  • 14 hectares of new employment space
  • A new 3 form entry primary school
  • c.44 hectares of open space
  • A new local centre of no less than 1,500 sqm of retail, leisure and services
  • A new medical facility

Extract from the draft Supplementary Planning Document


A policy requirement of the Maidstone Local Plan Review 2021-2038 was for the production of a Supplementary Planning Document to masterplan and facilitate the delivery of the Lidsing Garden Settlement.

What is a Supplementary Planning Document (SPD)?

  • SPDs give more detail about how particular Local Plan Review policies should be interpreted or applied in practice.
  • SPDs provide further information to guide developers and guide decisions on planning applications.
  • SPDs are supplementary to the policies in the Local Plan Review and must be consistent with them.
  • SPDs cannot create new policies.

Lidsing Garden Community Consultation

The consultation began on Monday 3 November and will end at 23:59 on Monday 15 December 2025.

We invite you to take part in this consultation on the draft Lidsing Garden Community SPD and appreciate you taking the time to do this. Your responses will help inform the preparation of a final SPD.

To view the draft SPD and supporting documents, and to submit your comments to the proposed material, please use the link below to:

Our online consultation portal

If you are unable to access/ view the draft SPD and consultation statement, these will be available at the Council’s offices and local libraries.

If you are unable to submit responses through the consultation platform, written responses may also be sent by email to ldf@maidstone.gov.uk or by post to:

Strategic Planning, Maidstone Borough Council, Maidstone House, King Street, Maidstone, ME15 6JQ

Lidsing Garden Community Drop-in Sessions

Residents and businesses are being invited to drop-in sessions for the Lidsing Garden Community on Wednesday 12 November between 4:00pm to 7:00pm at Beechen Hall in Walderslade, ME5 9RU and Thursday 13 November 1:30pm to 5:00pm at Blacksmith’s Barn in Bredhurst, ME7 3JU. These sessions are designed as information sessions for people to drop in and stay for as long or as little as they wish; there will be no formal presentation.

Comments and feedback should be submitted online or via email or post by 23:59 on Monday 15 December 2025.

More information can be found on the Council’s website here

Consultation closes: 23:59 on Monday 15 December 2025.

Help shape the development of the Supplementary Planning Document for Lidsing Garden Settlement.

In March 2024 Maidstone Borough Council adopted the Maidstone Local Plan Review 2021-2038. This document allocates sites for development and policies to manage that development. One of the sites allocated was the Lidsing Garden Settlement to the north of the Borough.

The Lidsing Garden Settlement allocation includes:

  • 2,000 new homes to be built (40% to be affordable homes)
  • 14 hectares of new employment space
  • A new 3 form entry primary school
  • c.44 hectares of open space
  • A new local centre of no less than 1,500 sqm of retail, leisure and services
  • A new medical facility

Extract from the draft Supplementary Planning Document


A policy requirement of the Maidstone Local Plan Review 2021-2038 was for the production of a Supplementary Planning Document to masterplan and facilitate the delivery of the Lidsing Garden Settlement.

What is a Supplementary Planning Document (SPD)?

  • SPDs give more detail about how particular Local Plan Review policies should be interpreted or applied in practice.
  • SPDs provide further information to guide developers and guide decisions on planning applications.
  • SPDs are supplementary to the policies in the Local Plan Review and must be consistent with them.
  • SPDs cannot create new policies.

Lidsing Garden Community Consultation

The consultation began on Monday 3 November and will end at 23:59 on Monday 15 December 2025.

We invite you to take part in this consultation on the draft Lidsing Garden Community SPD and appreciate you taking the time to do this. Your responses will help inform the preparation of a final SPD.

To view the draft SPD and supporting documents, and to submit your comments to the proposed material, please use the link below to:

Our online consultation portal

If you are unable to access/ view the draft SPD and consultation statement, these will be available at the Council’s offices and local libraries.

If you are unable to submit responses through the consultation platform, written responses may also be sent by email to ldf@maidstone.gov.uk or by post to:

Strategic Planning, Maidstone Borough Council, Maidstone House, King Street, Maidstone, ME15 6JQ

Lidsing Garden Community Drop-in Sessions

Residents and businesses are being invited to drop-in sessions for the Lidsing Garden Community on Wednesday 12 November between 4:00pm to 7:00pm at Beechen Hall in Walderslade, ME5 9RU and Thursday 13 November 1:30pm to 5:00pm at Blacksmith’s Barn in Bredhurst, ME7 3JU. These sessions are designed as information sessions for people to drop in and stay for as long or as little as they wish; there will be no formal presentation.

Comments and feedback should be submitted online or via email or post by 23:59 on Monday 15 December 2025.

More information can be found on the Council’s website here

Consultation closes: 23:59 on Monday 15 December 2025.

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