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Land North Of Earley House Waltham Road Petham Kent CT4 5RY

CA/25/02234Farming consultationRefused
Outline / PiP

Refused on 24 December 2025

Council decision: Prior approval refusedDelegated (officer decision)1 reason for refusal

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Application for determination as to whether prior approval is required for the erection of forestry building.

Received
3 December 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Chartham And Stone Street
Agent
Tetlow King Planning
  1. Received3 Dec
  2. Validated3 Dec
  3. Consult.31 Dec
  4. Target31 Dec
  5. Decided24 Dec

Decided in 21 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application at Land North Of Earley House Waltham Road Petham Kent CT4 5RY. Canterbury has handled 290 applications of this type. This one was decided in 21 days, 5 weeks quicker than Canterbury's typical decision time. The site is in the Petham conservation area. 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.

93% of outline applications at Canterbury City 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. ; In the absence of any acceptable justification for a forestry building of the size proposed, it is considered that the proposed building is excessive in size and would create a dominant built form within the countryside which would be harmful to the character and appearance of the area, having an unacceptable harm to the character and appearance of the conservation area and the wider landscape beauty of the North Kent Downs Area of High Landscape Value or

From the council's decision notice.

Application details

Postcode
CT4 5RY
Application type
Farming consultation
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Petham

Planning application dates

Date validated
3 December 2025
Last date for comments
31 December 2025
Target decision date
31 December 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent
Tetlow King Planning
Agent address
32 High Street West Malling Kent ME19 6QR

Planning decision

Statutory period
28 days

Additional information

Documents
13

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: The PETHAM Conservation Area
  • Listed building: The PETHAM Conservation AreaOn this site
  • Tree Preservation Order: Ref 11/1990/PETPart of the site · +1 more
  • Nutrient neutrality catchment: Stodmarsh SAC/SPA/RamsarApplies to new homes and overnight accommodation
  • National Landscape (AONB): Kent Downs
  • Ancient woodland: Earley WoodPart of the site
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (19)

flood storage areas, listed buildings, Article 4 directions, green belt, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, registered parks and gardens, registered battlefields, Heritage at Risk entries, national parks, SSSIs, Special Areas of Conservation, Special Protection Areas, Ramsar sites, 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

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© 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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