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Little Bower, Shottenden Lane, Molash, CT4 8HU

PA/2023/1592Removal/variation of conditionsApproved
Discharge / amendments

Approved on 13 December 2023

Council decision: Approve with ConditionsDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Variation of Condition 2 (Approved Plans/Documents) of planning permission 20/00775/AS for "Conversion of barn adjacent to listed house into a granny annex as ancillary accommodation to the house" to allow changes to the internal layout - a new door between the study and living room, larger shower room by removing part of a timber partition, Air source heat pump, wood burner and flue , one window to be replaced with opening casement and replacement of a small number of ridge tiles with ventilation tiles

Received
23 August 2023
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Downs North
  1. Received23 Aug
  2. Validated26 Sep
  3. Consult.13 Dec
  4. Target
  5. Decided13 Dec

Decided in 78 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to vary a condition at Little Bower, Shottenden Lane, Molash, CT4 8HU. Ashford has handled 790 applications of this type. This one was decided in 112 days, 8 weeks longer than Ashford's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area, with 1 listed building nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 52 applications across Downs North. We hold 1,907 applications in total for the CT4 postcode area.

97% of conditions 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
CT4 8HU
Application type
Removal/variation of conditions
Scale / size
Medium
Parish
Molash

Planning application dates

Date validated
26 September 2023
Consultation expiry
13 December 2023
Consultation start
29 September 2023
Consultation end
13 December 2023
Application expires
15 December 2023

Planning decision

Statutory period
80 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-12408469
Documents
20

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • National Landscape (AONB): Kent Downs
  • 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, nutrient neutrality catchments, national parks, 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.

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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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