Maidstone Borough Council · District council
Transport Statements and Assessments in Maidstone
What transport evidence a Maidstone planning application needs, the parking standards that apply, and the policies an assessment should address.
Which document do you need?
National policy asks for a Transport Statement or a Transport Assessment wherever a development will generate significant amounts of movement.
Transport Statement
A shorter document for smaller schemes where transport issues are limited: access, parking, trips and sustainable travel.
Transport Assessment
A full assessment for larger schemes: trip generation, network impact, junction capacity and mitigation.
Parking standards
Maidstone's Local Plan Review sets no numeric parking standards of its own. Policy LPRTRA4 says residential car parking is assessed against Kent County Council's Interim Guidance Note 3 to the Kent Design Guide, and other parking against the advice of Kent County Council as highway authority.
Source: Maidstone Borough Local Plan Review 2021-2038, Policy LPRTRA4: ParkingAdopted 20 March 2024Confirmed as the current standard on 13 November 2026
Policies your assessment should address
The transport policies of the development plan documents in the summary panel. A neighbourhood plan, or a plan for one part of Maidstone, may also apply to your site.
Maidstone Borough Local Plan Review 2021-2038
- LPRSP12Sustainable Transport
- LPRSP13Infrastructure Delivery
- LPRTRA2Assessing the Transport Impacts of Development
- LPRTRA4Parking
This page summarises adopted policy and links to the source documents. It is not legal advice: always confirm a figure against the adopted document before relying on it.