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Winters Court Farm, Old Surrenden Manor Road, Bethersden, TN26 3DQ

NOT/2025/1261Prior approval Agricultural buildings to dwellinghousesRefused
Outline / PiP

Refused on 22 August 2025

Council decision: Prior Approval RefusedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Prior approval for change of use from one agricultural barn and land within its curtilage to two dwelling houses and associated operational development.

Received
7 July 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Weald Central
  1. Received7 Jul
  2. Validated7 Jul
  3. Consult.1 Aug
  4. Target
  5. Decided22 Aug

Decided in 46 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for a change of use at Winters Court Farm, Old Surrenden Manor Road, Bethersden, TN26 3DQ. Ashford has handled 467 applications of this type. This one was decided in 46 days, 10 days quicker than Ashford's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area, with 3 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 65 applications across Weald Central. We hold 1,825 applications in total for the TN26 postcode area.

85% of outline applications at Ashford Borough Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
TN26 3DQ
Application type
Prior approval Agricultural buildings to dwellinghouses
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Bethersden

Planning application dates

Date validated
7 July 2025
Consultation expiry
1 August 2025
Consultation end
1 August 2025
Application expires
1 September 2025

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14153559
Documents
13

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

Also checked, none recorded (23)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders, green belt, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, registered parks and gardens, registered battlefields, Heritage at Risk entries, nutrient neutrality catchments, national parks, National Landscapes, SSSIs, Special Areas of Conservation, Special Protection Areas, Ramsar sites, ancient woodland, national nature reserves, local nature reserves, heritage coasts and brownfield registers.

A guide only, from official open data; it is not a planning search. Flood zones cover rivers and sea, not surface water.

Data © Crown copyright and others · sources and licences

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© Natural England copyright. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Flood Map for Planning, Open Government Licence v3.0.

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Source: Ashford

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