Mansfield Farms Nickle Farm Nickle Lane Chartham Kent CT4 7PF

CA/25/00514Cert of existing lawful use or devtApproved

Lawful development certificate

Approved on 26 August 2025

Council decision: Would be lawfulDelegated (officer decision)

Proposal

Application for lawful development certificate for existing hard surface.

Received: 21 March 2025
Decision level: Delegated (officer decision)
Council: Canterbury City Council
Ward: Chartham And Stone Street
Agent: N Field Projects Ltd

ReceivedReceived21 Mar
ValidatedValidated21 Mar
Consult.Consultation25 Apr
TargetTarget Date16 May
DecidedDecided26 Aug

Decided in 158 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at Mansfield Farms Nickle Farm Nickle Lane Chartham Kent CT4 7PF. Canterbury has handled 275 applications of this type. This one was decided in 158 days, 15 weeks longer than Canterbury's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 130 applications across Chartham And Stone Street. We hold 1,905 applications in total for the CT4 postcode area.

97% of amendment applications at Canterbury City Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode: CT4 7PF
Application type: Cert of existing lawful use or devt
Scale / size: Small
Parish: Chartham

Planning application dates

Date validated: 21 March 2025
Last date for comments: 25 April 2025
Target decision date: 16 May 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent: N Field Projects Ltd
Agent address: 5 Woodlands Close Heathfield TN21 8BH

Planning decision

Statutory period: 56 days

Additional information

Documents: 4

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
Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

Also checked, none recorded (23)

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, 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.

Source: Canterbury

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