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£675,000

Laburnum Place, Sittingbourne, Kent, ME10

Key Features

  • Consent For Five-storey, 26 Apartments Scheme
  • Prime Location Close to Sittingbourne High Street & Station
  • On-Site Parking with Parking included within Proposed Scheme
  • Private Outdoor Spaces to All Apartments
  • Planning Approved by Swale Borough Council under Ref: 24/500438/OUT
  • Further Potential to Explore an Intensified Scheme

Description

LAND WITH OUTLINED PLANNING - The Former Water Pumping Station close to the High Street of Sittingbourne with outline planning for the erection of a stylish 5 storey apartment scheme comprising of 26 apartments

A former water pumping station set close to the main High Street of Sittingbourne and easy access to the mainline Railway station, with outline planning for the erection of a stylish 5 storey apartment scheme comprising of 26 apartments with scope to create 44 units.

With on site parking and only 3 units allocated as shared ownership this is a versatile site that will suit a number of onward uses including a speculative build, build-to-rent and surrogate affordable housing site.

The Property
Located off St Michaels Road and found a short walking distance to both the local amenities of the High Steet and the Sittingbourne railway station. Planning has been granted, approved by Swale Borough Council under ref 24/500438/OUT, to decommission the former water pumping station and erect a stylish block of apartments.

Each apartment offers private balconies or private gardens, with the 2 & 3 bedrooms offering ensuite bathrooms. Making these units suitable for both sale and rental.

Further plans have been prepared, but not formally submitted, for an intensified scheme of 44 apartments, as shown in the CGI within a slightly large and higher massing. Details of which are available on request.

Proposal
Offers are invited for the site based on the current planning consent. And a full set of consented plans and reports are available on request.

Contact
The site is vacant and potential buyers are encouraged to visit the site prior to making offers.

Location
Sittingbourne is located in the Swale area of North Kent, this thriving town is full of cafes and restaurants and hosts a weekly Friday market. Sittingbourne is also home to the Sittingbourne and Kemsley Light Railway, which puffs back into the town's paper-milling past. The 52-hectare Milton Creek Country Park has play spaces and trails among its meadows and wetlands, while the marshes and mudflats of the Oare Marshes Nature Reserve in Faversham give host to migrating, overwintering and breeding birds. The town offers an excellent range of schools and also fantastic access to London via the M2 and train station.

Identification Checks
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Property details

Tenure
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Council Tax Band
TBC
Date Posted
2026-08-13

Utilities & Restrictions

Utilities

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Broadband
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Sewerage
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Rights & Restrictions

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Listed status, conservation areas and planning constraints for this location are in the full report.

Property Features

Accessibility
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Parking
Parking Available
Garden
Garden

Beyond the particulars: planning activity, flood history, heritage and ground risks, checked for this exact spot.

Connectivity

Broadband

Fastest speed available at this postcode

1.8 Gbps

Gigabit full fibre

Suitable for

  • 4K streaming on every screen
  • Full-time home working
  • Online gaming & big downloads

Mobile signal

CallsDataEE Good GoodO2 Good GoodThree Good GoodVodafone Good Good

Outdoor predictions; indoor signal depends on building materials.

Ofcom Connected Nations postcode-level predictions. Speeds and signal are modelled, not measured, and vary between addresses and providers.

Signal is the easy part. Planning activity, flood history and protected designations here are in the full report.

Nearest Schools

Primary

  • Westlands Primary School824 metresOfsted: Good *
    Ages
    4 to 11
    Pupils
    469
    Type
    Academy converter
  • Milton Court Primary Academy992 metresOfsted: Good
    Ages
    3 to 11
    Pupils
    251
    Type
    Academy sponsor led
  • St Peter's Catholic Primary School0.6 milesOfsted: Good
    Ages
    4 to 11
    Pupils
    210
    Type
    Academy converter
    Faith
    Roman Catholic
  • The Oaks Infant School0.7 milesNo Ofsted rating
    Ages
    3 to 7
    Pupils
    312
    Type
    Academy converter
  • Minterne Junior School0.7 milesOfsted report card · May 2026
    Ages
    7 to 11
    Pupils
    393
    Type
    Academy converter

Secondary

  • Borden Grammar School620 metresOfsted report card · May 2026
    Ages
    11 to 18
    Pupils
    938
    Type
    Academy converter
    Gender
    Boys
  • Highsted Grammar School0.7 milesOfsted: Good
    Ages
    11 to 18
    Pupils
    793
    Type
    Academy converter
    Gender
    Girls
  • Fulston Manor School0.7 milesOfsted: Requires improvement
    Ages
    11 to 18
    Pupils
    1,314
    Type
    Academy converter
  • Westlands School0.8 milesNo Ofsted rating
    Ages
    11 to 18
    Pupils
    1,690
    Type
    Academy converter
  • The Sittingbourne School1.3 milesOfsted: Good
    Ages
    11 to 19
    Pupils
    1,556
    Type
    Academy sponsor led

* Latest graded judgement covers quality of education only; no overall grade was issued under the 2024-25 inspection framework.

Distances are straight-line from the advertised location. Source: the national school registers (DfE, Welsh Government, Scottish Government) and Ofsted.

Schools are just the start: sold prices nearby, planning activity and any flood history are in the full report.

Amenities

Supermarket

Lidl Central Sittingbourne Sittingbourne, Sittingbourne135 metres
Morrisons Sittingbourne, Sittingbourne164 metres
Iceland Sittingbourne Food Warehouse, Sittingbourne251 metres

GP surgery

London Road Medical Centre254 metres

Pharmacy

Boots324 metres

Hospital

Sittingbourne Memorial Hospital955 metres

Green space

Play Space195 metres

Straight-line distances from the advertised location. Sources: NHS records, Geolytix supermarket locations, OS Open Greenspace and the national trails registers.

The area stacks up? Now check the location itself: planning nearby, protected designations and past flooding.

Getting Around

Nearest station

Sittingbourne Rail Station295 metres

Nearest bus stop

Cockleshell Walk33 metres

Typical drive times

Minster14 min · 9.2 miles
Sheerness17 min · 9.9 miles
Queenborough11 min · 7.7 miles
Sittingbourne2 min · 0.4 miles
Canterbury (city)29 min · 17 miles

Straight-line distances from the advertised location; drive times are typical free-flow times over OpenStreetMap road data, so allow more at peak. Public transport locations from DfT NaPTAN.

Easy to reach matters. So do planning activity, flood history and ground risks: all in the full report.

Flood Risk

From Environment Agency flood map open data, checked around the advertised map pin and allowing for the listed acreage where known. This summary comes from LandSale, the advertising platform, not from the listing agent, and is not part of the agent's particulars. Risk can vary across a single holding, so verify anything critical through your own searches before committing.

Rivers and the sea

Flood Zone 1Lower risk

Surface water

A 1 in 100 to 1 in 1000 chance each yearMedium to low risk

The detail behind these bandings

The full report pinpoints where this location sits on the flood maps, and runs the deeper checks that usually only surface after an offer.

  • Exact flood zones & annual chances (included in the full report)
  • Any recorded past flooding (included in the full report)
  • Planning activity nearby (included in the full report)
  • Heritage & conservation (included in the full report)
  • Protected nature designations (included in the full report)
  • Ground risks (included in the full report)
  • Sold prices nearby (included in the full report)

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