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Wye School, Kempe Centre, Olantigh Road, Wye, TN25 5EJ

PA/2025/1180Removal/variation of conditionsApproved
Discharge / amendments

Approved on 24 September 2025

Council decision: Approve with ConditionsDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Variation of condition 23 (No more than 600 pupils will be registered at the school at any time of which there shall be no more than 90 in any one year group) of planning permission 16/01548/AS for "Phases 2 and 3 of the proposed Wye School expansion" to remove the restriction on the number of pupils enrolled in each year group and propose to amend the condition wording to "No more than 600 pupils shall be registered at the school at any time"

Received
24 June 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Wye with Hinxhill
  1. Received24 Jun
  2. Validated14 Jul
  3. Consult.14 Aug
  4. Target
  5. Decided24 Sep

Decided in 72 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to vary a condition at Wye School, Kempe Centre, Olantigh Road, Wye, TN25 5EJ. Ashford has handled 790 applications of this type. This one was decided in 92 days, 5 weeks 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 25 applications across Wye with Hinxhill. We hold 1,099 applications in total for the TN25 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
TN25 5EJ
Application type
Removal/variation of conditions
Scale / size
Medium
Parish
Wye with Hinxhill

Planning application dates

Date validated
14 July 2025
Consultation expiry
14 August 2025
Consultation end
14 August 2025
Application expires
13 October 2025

Planning decision

Statutory period
91 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14121503
Documents
7

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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