Elsinore New Barn Road Longfield Kent DA3 7JB
Approved on 7 October 2025
Council decision: Planning Permission not RequiredDelegated (officer decision)
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Proposal
Application for a Lawful Development Certificate for a proposed change of use to a Children's Home within Use Class C2
- Received
- 29 July 2025
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Public comments
- 1
- Council
- Dartford Borough Council
- Ward
- Longfield, New Barn & Southfleet
- ReceivedReceived29 Jul
- ValidatedValidated13 Aug
- Consult.Consultation3 Sep
- TargetTarget Date8 Oct
- DecidedDecided7 Oct
Decided in 55 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is an application to amend a permission at Elsinore New Barn Road Longfield Kent DA3 7JB. Dartford has handled 305 applications of this type. This one was decided in 70 days, 2 weeks longer than Dartford's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 124 applications across Longfield, New Barn & Southfleet. We hold 1,107 applications in total for the DA3 postcode area.
93% of amendment applications at Dartford Borough Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).
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Application details
- Postcode
- DA3 7JB
- Application type
- Lawful Development Certificate
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Longfield And New Barn
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 13 August 2025
- Consultation expiry
- 3 September 2025
- Consultation start
- 13 August 2025
- Consultation end
- 3 September 2025
- Last date for comments
- 3 September 2025
- Target decision date
- 8 October 2025
Applicant and agent
- Applicant
- Private applicant
- Agent address
- Gillings Planning Ltd 2 Wessex Business Park Colden Common Winchester Hampshire SO21 1WP
Planning decision
- Case officer
- Abigail Lavery
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Additional information
- Planning Portal ID
- PP-14163286
- Documents
- 12
- Constraints
- 19
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Tree Preservation Order: 63/00001/TPOProtected tree on or next to this site
- Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (23)
flood storage areas, conservation 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, 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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Source: Dartford
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