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Lower Knockwood Farm, Woodchurch Road, Tenterden, TN30 7DP

PA/2025/2308Full planning permissionApproved
Full

Approved on 19 February 2026

Council decision: Approve with ConditionsDelegated (officer decision)6 conditions

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

Proposal

Change of use of land from agricultural to residential garden with a modified driveway and the erection of a 3-bay car barn and log store.

Received
13 December 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Tenterden South
  1. Received13 Dec
  2. Validated22 Dec
  3. Consult.6 Feb
  4. Target
  5. Decided19 Feb

Decided in 59 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at Lower Knockwood Farm, Woodchurch Road, Tenterden, TN30 7DP. Ashford has handled 2,705 applications of this type. This one was decided in 68 days, 12 days 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 23 applications across Tenterden South. We hold 380 applications in total for the TN30 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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Application details

Postcode
TN30 7DP
Application type
Full planning permission
Scale / size
Medium
Parish
Tenterden

Planning application dates

Date validated
22 December 2025
Consultation expiry
6 February 2026
Consultation end
6 February 2026
Application expires
20 February 2026

Planning decision

Statutory period
60 days

Additional information

Documents
13

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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