Chiddingstone Woods (Stock Wood And Russells Wood) Pigdown Lane And Wellers Town Road Chiddingstone Hoath Kent
Approved on 30 September 2013
Council decision: GrantedDelegated (officer decision)
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Proposal
The restoration of two existing woodland tracks (Stock Wood track off Pigdown Lane and Russells Wood/Yewtree Wood/Puckden Wood track off Wellers Town Road) to enable the extraction of timber and cord wood from the woodland and safe access for timber vehicles.
- Received
- 13 May 2013
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- Sevenoaks District Council
- Ward
- Penshurst, Fordcombe & Chiddingstone
- ReceivedReceived13 May
- ValidatedValidated1 Jul
- Consult.Consultation25 Jul
- TargetTarget Date30 Sep
- DecidedDecided30 Sep
Decided in 91 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is a full planning application at Chiddingstone Woods (Stock Wood And Russells Wood) Pigdown Lane And Wellers Town Road Chiddingstone Hoath Kent. Sevenoaks has handled 1,736 applications of this type. This one was decided in 140 days, 12 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 39 applications across Penshurst, Fordcombe & Chiddingstone.
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
- Application type
- Full Application
- Scale / size
- Medium
- Parish
- Chiddingstone
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 1 July 2013
- Consultation expiry
- 1 September 2013
- Consultation start
- 4 July 2013
- Consultation end
- 25 July 2013
- Neighbour consultation start
- 4 July 2013
- Neighbour consultation end
- 25 July 2013
- Last date for comments
- 1 September 2013
- Target decision date
- 30 September 2013
- Permission expires
- 30 September 2016
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 91 days
Publicity
- Last advertised
- 11 July 2013
- Advertisement expiry
- 1 August 2013
- Site notice start
- 12 August 2013
- Site notice end
- 1 September 2013
Additional information
- Planning Portal ID
- PP-02632044
- Documents
- 8
- Constraints
- 12
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Green belt: Sevenoaks
- National Landscape (AONB): High Weald
- Ancient woodlandPart of the site · +4 more
- 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.
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