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For flies you may need traps. Even with deep litter like I use it's hard to get the litter to compost poops when it gets hot and dry. I'm sure there's scratch recipes but you can also buy it commercially (or look at what's in a packaged scratch mix and mix your own assortment of the same...

Scratch is chicken candy, a mix of seeds and other tasty tidbits. Whether or not you need litter and how you'd manage it depends on your climate and soil and cleaning schedule. It might be ok as is, or you may find yourself with a muddy mess within a few months, impossible to say until it happens.

x2. I use my hand to determine if a direct contact heat source is working. If it's warm-hot to the touch, but not so hot that you cannot safely hold your hand on it, it's good enough. My heating pad on high barely registers as warm to the touch on initial contact, but it obviously feels...

This is minimums of course. More space the better if you have the room for it. Also for practicality, you have to consider how difficult it would be for you to access and maintain a very small coop or run. It probably sounds easier because "small" but the reality is you will need to do more...

Other than the predator risk and fire risk, that tarp is also cutting off all ventilation. Chicks need it too. Depending on what direction(s) your winds come from, I'd only tarp the top and the predominant wind direction(s). Since you mentioned the coop must be located where the kennel...