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River Farm Chart Hill Road Staplehurst Tonbridge Kent TN12 0RW

18/502831/LDCEXLawful Development Cert. (Existing)Approved
Lawful development certificate

Approved on 11 March 2019

Council decision: Application PermittedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Lawful Development Certificate for the existing use of the land and buildings for the grading, packing, storage and distribution of fruit including up to 31 HGV traffic movements per day, on site storage capacity of 39,000 cubic metres with 23,444 tonnes annual throughput of the packing operation of which 11,544 tonnes of fruit processed on site not originating from River Farm owned or leased land.

Received
25 May 2018
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Boughton Monchelsea And Chart Sutton
  1. Received25 May
  2. Validated25 May
  3. Consult.
  4. Target11 Mar
  5. Decided11 Mar

Decided in 290 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at River Farm Chart Hill Road Staplehurst Tonbridge Kent TN12 0RW. Mid Kent has handled 419 applications of this type. This one was decided in 290 days, 33 weeks longer than Mid Kent's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area. There have been 7 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 60 applications across Boughton Monchelsea And Chart Sutton. We hold 1,127 applications in total for the TN12 postcode area.

83% of amendment applications at Maidstone Borough Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
TN12 0RW
Application type
Lawful Development Cert. (Existing)
Scale / size
Medium
Parish
Boughton Monchelsea

Planning application dates

Date validated
25 May 2018
Target decision date
11 March 2019
Permission expires
11 March 2024

Applicant and agent

Agent address
FAO: Judith Norris Hill View House The Hill Cranbrook TN17 3AD

Planning decision

Statutory period
290 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-06995985
Documents
54
Constraints
10

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Flood zone 3: High probability (rivers and sea)Part of the site
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.

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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.

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Planning history at this site

10 other applications at this property, newest first.

  1. 2022
    11 Aug

    Erection of a two storey side extension.

    RefusedFull22/503804/FULL
  2. 2021
    20 Sep

    Retrospective application for new waste treatment plant to replace and decommission 2 No undersized existing…

    ApprovedFull21/505105/FULL
  3. 2021
    16 Feb

    New waste treatment plant to replace and decommission 2 No undersized existing plants

    WithdrawnFull21/500721/FULL
  4. 2020
    22 Jul

    Erection of extensions to existing packhouse building, together with new internal access road, amendments to…

    WithdrawnFull20/503147/FULL
  5. 2020
    17 Jul

    Full planning permission for the erection of an atmosphere controlled storage building together with external…

    WithdrawnFull20/503148/FULL
  6. 2020
    17 Jul

    Change of use of land for the siting of 20 worker caravans together with the erection of a laundry and games…

    WithdrawnFull20/503155/FULL

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