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Land between Boughton Cottage and Millview Cottage, Mill Lane, Smarden

PA/2025/1999Removal/variation of conditionsApproved
Discharge / amendments

Approved on 26 January 2026

Council decision: Approve with ConditionsDelegated (officer decision)28 conditions

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

Proposal

Variation of conditions 2 (approved plans) & 27 (Climate mitigation strategy) for planning permission PA/2023/1175 "Erection of 9 bungalows with the provision of new public amenity space, together with associated access from Mill Lane, parking, landscaping, and infrastructure"; to allow for approved solar panels to be substituted for air source heat pumps

Received
28 October 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Weald North
  1. Received28 Oct
  2. Validated28 Oct
  3. Consult.26 Jan
  4. Target
  5. Decided26 Jan

Decided in 90 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to vary a condition at Land between Boughton Cottage and Millview Cottage, Mill Lane, Smarden. Ashford has handled 790 applications of this type. This one was decided in 90 days, 5 weeks longer than Ashford's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area. There have been 4 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 55 applications across Weald North.

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

Application type
Removal/variation of conditions
Scale / size
Medium
Parish
Smarden

Planning application dates

Date validated
28 October 2025
Consultation expiry
26 January 2026
Consultation end
26 January 2026
Application expires
27 January 2026

Planning decision

Statutory period
91 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14444797
Documents
16

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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.

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.

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