Land between Boughton Cottage and Millview Cottage, Mill Lane, Smarden

OTH/2025/1304Non-Material AmendmentApproved

Discharge / amendments

Approved on 30 July 2025

Council decision: ApproveDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Non-material amendment to PA/2023/1175 for "Erection of 9 bungalows with the provision of new public amenity space, together with associated access from Mill Lane, parking, landscaping, and infrastructure," to allow minor changes to windows and doors; cill heights reduced to windows within bathrooms and kitchens, front entrance door and sidelights amended and windows omitted where privacy issues are considered.

Received: 11 July 2025
Decision level: Delegated (officer decision)
Council: Ashford Borough Council
Ward: Weald South

ReceivedReceived11 Jul
ValidatedValidated11 Jul
Consult.Consultation30 Jul
TargetTarget Date
DecidedDecided30 Jul

Decided in 19 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at Land between Boughton Cottage and Millview Cottage, Mill Lane, Smarden. Ashford has handled 297 applications of this type. This one was decided in 19 days, 5 weeks quicker than Ashford's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area. There have been 4 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 62 applications across Weald South.

86% of amendment 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

Application type: Non-Material Amendment
Scale / size: Small
Parish: Smarden;Smarden

Planning application dates

Date validated: 11 July 2025
Consultation expiry: 30 July 2025
Consultation end: 30 July 2025
Application expires: 8 August 2025

Planning decision

Statutory period: 28 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID: PP-14165875
Documents: 7

Site constraints

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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.

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Source: Ashford

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