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1 & 2 Lion Farm Cottages, Soleshill Road, Chilham, CT4 8JY

PA/2024/1751Householder planning permissionApproved
Householder

Approved on 22 November 2024

Council decision: Approve with ConditionsDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Replacement of existing cess pit into surface water attenuation tank together with the construction of new foul water treatment plant with associated drainage fields

Received
23 September 2024
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Downs North
  1. Received23 Sep
  2. Validated30 Sep
  3. Consult.22 Nov
  4. Target
  5. Decided22 Nov

Decided in 53 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application at 1 & 2 Lion Farm Cottages, Soleshill Road, Chilham, CT4 8JY. Ashford has handled 2,705 applications of this type. This one was decided in 60 days, 4 days longer 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 52 applications across Downs North. We hold 1,907 applications in total for the CT4 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
CT4 8JY
Application type
Householder planning permission
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Chilham

Planning application dates

Date validated
30 September 2024
Consultation expiry
22 November 2024
Consultation end
22 November 2024
Application expires
25 November 2024

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-13426473
Documents
8

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

  • Nutrient neutrality catchment: Stodmarsh SAC/SPA/RamsarApplies to new homes and overnight accommodation
  • National Landscape (AONB): Kent Downs
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (22)

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, 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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