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Chiddingstone Woods Wellers Town Road Chiddingstone Hoath Kent

12/03452/AGRNOTAgricultural/Forestry NotificationApproved
Prior approval

Approved on 24 January 2013

Council decision: Prior Approval RequiredDelegated (officer decision)

Proposal

Alterations to three existing tracks (shown A, B and C on site location plan) to create roads in order to enable extraction of timber and cord wood from the woodland and safe access for timber lorries.

Received
28 December 2012
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Penshurst, Fordcombe & Chiddingstone
  1. Received28 Dec
  2. Validated28 Dec
  3. Consult.17 Jan
  4. Target25 Jan
  5. Decided24 Jan

Decided in 27 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a planning application at Chiddingstone Woods Wellers Town Road Chiddingstone Hoath Kent. Sevenoaks has handled 70 applications of this type. This one was decided in 27 days, 4 weeks quicker 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 39 applications across Penshurst, Fordcombe & Chiddingstone.

91% of all 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

Application type
Agricultural/Forestry Notification
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Chiddingstone

Planning application dates

Date validated
28 December 2012
Consultation expiry
17 January 2013
Consultation start
3 January 2013
Consultation end
17 January 2013
Last date for comments
24 January 2013
Target decision date
25 January 2013
Permission expires
24 January 2018

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Puckshipton House Beechingstoke Pewsey Wiltshire SN9 6HG

Planning decision

Statutory period
28 days

Additional information

Documents
4
Constraints
12

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

  • Green belt: Sevenoaks
  • National Landscape (AONB): High Weald
  • Ancient woodland: Newtye Hurst/Truggers Gill
  • 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 (19)

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, 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

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.

© 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.

Source: Sevenoaks

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