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Plantin House, Wellesley Road, Ashford, Kent TN24 8ES

PA/2023/0766Full planning permissionWithdrawn
Full

Withdrawn on 22 May 2024

Delegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Change of use from mixed-use private day nursery and residential (comprising 2 apartments) to residential accommodation comprising 4 apartments, external and internal alterations including installation of PV solar panels

Received
19 April 2023
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Furley
  1. Received19 Apr
  2. Validated20 Jul
  3. Consult.14 Aug
  4. Target
  5. Decided22 May

Decided in 307 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at Plantin House, Wellesley Road, Ashford, Kent TN24 8ES. Ashford has handled 2,705 applications of this type. It was withdrawn 399 days after it was submitted, before a decision was made. The site is in a conservation area. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 19 applications across Furley. We hold 1,417 applications in total for the TN24 postcode area.

89% of full 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
TN24 8ES
Application type
Full planning permission
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Central Ashford

Planning application dates

Date validated
20 July 2023
Consultation expiry
14 August 2023
Consultation start
21 July 2023
Consultation end
14 August 2023
Application expires
14 September 2023

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-12101746
Documents
18

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Nutrient neutrality catchment: Stodmarsh SAC/SPA/RamsarApplies to new homes and overnight accommodation
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (23)

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, 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.

© 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.

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

Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Source: Ashford

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