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Wesleyan Chapel, The Street, Appledore, Ashford, TN26 2AE

PA/2025/2261Full planning permissionRefused
Full

Refused on 1 June 2026

Council decision: RefuseDelegated (officer decision)1 reason for refusal

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

Proposal

Creation of 2 no. guest off road parking spaces with electric vehicle charging to serve the holiday let.

Received
8 December 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Isle of Oxney
  1. Received8 Dec
  2. Validated20 Jan
  3. Consult.1 Jun
  4. Target
  5. Decided1 Jun

Decided in 132 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application at Wesleyan Chapel, The Street, Appledore, Ashford, TN26 2AE. Ashford has handled 2,705 applications of this type. This one was decided in 175 days, 17 weeks longer than Ashford's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area. There have been 2 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 41 applications across Isle of Oxney. We hold 1,826 applications in total for the TN26 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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Why it was refused

  1. The proposed parking spaces would fail to meet the minimum dimensions set out within the adopted parking standards and would be likely to result in vehicles overhanging the adjacent footway. This would prejudice pedestrian and highway safety and fail to provide a safe and functional parking arrangement. The proposal is therefore contrary to Policies SP6 and TRA3a of the Ashford Local Plan 2030, the Ashford Borough Council Residential Parking and Design Guidance SPD (2010), the KCC Parking Standards (January 2025) and paragraph 115 of the NPPF.

From the council's decision notice.

Application details

Postcode
TN26 2AE
Application type
Full planning permission
Scale / size
Medium
Parish
Appledore

Planning application dates

Date validated
20 January 2026
Consultation expiry
1 June 2026
Consultation end
1 June 2026
Application expires
10 April 2026

Planning decision

Statutory period
80 days

Additional information

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.

  • 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.

Source: Ashford

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