High Halden Wastewater Treatment Works, Wrens Nest Lane, High Halden, Ashford, TN26 3NH

OTH/2024/0500Screening OpinionApproved

Outline / PiP

Approved on 22 March 2024

Council decision: Screening - EIA not requiredDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate location: the centre of the postcode, not the exact property.

Proposal

Request for a Screening Opinion as to whether the proposed installation of a new 4.2km waste water pipeline from High Halden WTW to the Tenterden gravity sewer network requires an Environmental Impact Assessment

Received: 11 March 2024
Decision level: Delegated (officer decision)
Council: Ashford Borough Council
Ward: Tenterden St Michael's;Weald Central

ReceivedReceived11 Mar
ValidatedValidated11 Mar
Consult.Consultation22 Mar
TargetTarget Date
DecidedDecided22 Mar

Decided in 11 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application at High Halden Wastewater Treatment Works, Wrens Nest Lane, High Halden, Ashford, TN26 3NH. Ashford has handled 467 applications of this type. This one was decided in 11 days, 6 weeks quicker than Ashford's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. 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 3NH
Application type: Screening Opinion
Scale / size: Medium
Parish: High Halden;Tenterden

Planning application dates

Date validated: 11 March 2024
Consultation expiry: 22 March 2024
Consultation end: 22 March 2024
Application expires: 1 April 2024

Planning decision

Statutory period: 21 days

Additional information

Documents: 23

Site constraints

Checking the site

2/3

Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

Also checked, none recorded (24)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, 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

Contains public sector information from planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG and local planning authorities), licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© Historic England 2026. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. The Historic England GIS Data contained in this material was obtained on 2026-11-03. The most publicly available up to date Historic England GIS Data can be obtained from HistoricEngland.org.uk.

Source: Ashford

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