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Chicken Shed At: Basing Farm Furnace Lane Cowden Edenbridge Kent TN8 7JU

10/01656/FULFull ApplicationApproved
Full

Approved on 13 September 2010

Council decision: GrantedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Conversion of former Chicken Shed and ancillary office to private dwelling.

Received
8 June 2010
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Cowden & Hever
  1. Received8 Jun
  2. Validated19 Jul
  3. Consult.11 Aug
  4. Target13 Sep
  5. Decided13 Sep

Decided in 56 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application at Chicken Shed At: Basing Farm Furnace Lane Cowden Edenbridge Kent TN8 7JU. Sevenoaks has handled 1,736 applications of this type. This one was decided in 97 days, 6 weeks longer than Sevenoaks'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 22 applications across Cowden & Hever. We hold 1,036 applications in total for the TN8 postcode area.

89% of full applications at Sevenoaks District Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
TN8 7JU
Application type
Full Application
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Cowden

Planning application dates

Date validated
19 July 2010
Consultation expiry
11 August 2010
Consultation start
21 July 2010
Consultation end
11 August 2010
Neighbour consultation start
21 July 2010
Neighbour consultation end
11 August 2010
Last date for comments
12 August 2010
Target decision date
13 September 2010
Permission expires
13 September 2013

Applicant and agent

Agent address
The Studio Letswood Farm Corsey Road Groombridge East Sussex TN3 9PH

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Documents
23
Constraints
9

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Green belt: Sevenoaks
  • National Landscape (AONB): High Weald
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

Not published by this council, so not checked: Article 4 directions and tree preservation orders. Ask the council if these matter.

Also checked, none recorded (20)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, 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, 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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Planning history at this site

16 other applications at this property, newest first.

  1. 2013
    6 Sep

    Retrospective application for a 2.2m high rendered block wall to support climbing plants to form screen.

    ApprovedHouseholder13/02694/HOUSE
  2. 2011
    11 Nov

    Remedial measures to stabilise the earth banks to the South West of the site. Addition of photovoltaic panels…

    ApprovedFull Application11/02934/FUL
  3. 2011
    15 Jun

    Revisions to a part implemented consent two former chicken sheds at Basings Farm Cowden into dwelling houses…

    ApprovedFull Application11/01527/FUL
  4. 2011
    13 May

    Detail of condition 3 (landscaping) of SE/10/01656/FUL

    RefusedDischarge of conditions11/01260/DETAIL
  5. 2011
    13 May

    Detail of condition 2 (materials) of SE/10/01656/FUL

    ApprovedDischarge of conditions11/01259/DETAIL
  6. 2011
    13 May

    Detail of condition 8 (protected species) of SE/10/01656/FUL

    ApprovedDischarge of conditions11/01261/DETAIL

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