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Chilham Castle, Chilham Castle Estate, Chilham, CT4 8DB

PA/2025/0327Listed building consent (Alt/Ext)Approved
Listed building consent

Approved on 13 August 2025

Council decision: Grant ConsentDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Listed Building Consent for conversion of store rooms into bathrooms. Reinstatement of exterior door on West elevation. New external door in the west wall of the pool wing. Conversion of first floor bedroom to bathroom and form new doorway. New partition with door in second floor corridor.

Received
20 February 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Downs North
  1. Received20 Feb
  2. Validated20 Feb
  3. Consult.13 Aug
  4. Target
  5. Decided13 Aug

Decided in 174 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a heritage application at Chilham Castle, Chilham Castle Estate, Chilham, CT4 8DB. Ashford has handled 458 applications of this type. This one was decided in 174 days, 17 weeks longer than Ashford's typical decision time. There has been 1 other application 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.

88% of heritage 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 8DB
Application type
Listed building consent (Alt/Ext)
Scale / size
Medium
Parish
Chilham

Planning application dates

Date validated
20 February 2025
Consultation expiry
13 August 2025
Consultation end
13 August 2025
Application expires
14 August 2025

Planning decision

Statutory period
175 days

Publicity

Site notice start
4 March 2025

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-13780046
Documents
30

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

  • Conservation area: Chilham
  • 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 (21)

flood storage 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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