Vesper Barn, Vesper Hawk Lane, Smarden, TN27 8PU
Approved on 5 September 2024
Council decision: Approve with ConditionsDelegated (officer decision)
Proposal
Proposed automatic access gates to include brick piers.
- Received
- 7 August 2024
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- Ashford Borough Council
- Ward
- Weald North
- ReceivedReceived7 Aug
- ValidatedValidated14 Aug
- Consult.Consultation4 Sep
- TargetTarget Date
- DecidedDecided5 Sep
Decided in 22 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is a full planning application at Vesper Barn, Vesper Hawk Lane, Smarden, TN27 8PU. Ashford has handled 2,705 applications of this type. This one was decided in 29 days, 4 weeks quicker than Ashford's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 55 applications across Weald North. We hold 353 applications in total for the TN27 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
- TN27 8PU
- Application type
- Householder planning permission
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Smarden
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 14 August 2024
- Consultation expiry
- 4 September 2024
- Consultation end
- 4 September 2024
- Application expires
- 9 October 2024
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Additional information
- Planning Portal ID
- PP-13307187
- Documents
- 7
Site constraints
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.
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© 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.
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Source: Ashford
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