Post Office Cottage, The Street, Smarden, Ashford, TN27 8NA

PA/2025/2229Change of useAwaiting decision

Discharge / amendments

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

Proposal

Change of use to residential.

Received: 2 December 2025
Decision level: Delegated (officer decision)
Council: Ashford Borough Council
Ward: Weald North

ReceivedReceived2 Dec
ValidatedValidated23 Feb
Consult.Consultation26 Mar
TargetTarget Date
DecidedDecided

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About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at Post Office Cottage, The Street, Smarden, Ashford, TN27 8NA. Ashford has handled 297 applications of this type. It has been with the council since 2 December 2025 and is still awaiting a decision. The site is in a conservation area, with 17 listed buildings nearby. 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.

86% of amendment 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 8NA
Application type: Change of use
Scale / size: Small
Parish: Smarden

Planning application dates

Date validated: 23 February 2026
Consultation expiry: 26 March 2026
Consultation end: 26 March 2026
Application expires: 20 April 2026

Planning decision

Statutory period: 56 days

Additional information

Documents: 9

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: Smarden
Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

Also checked, none recorded (23)

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, 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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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.

Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Source: Ashford

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