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Basing Furnace Lane Cowden KENT TN8 7JU

18/00727/HOUSEHouseholder ApplicationApproved
Householder

Approved on 26 April 2018

Council decision: GrantedDelegated (officer decision)

Proposal

Part conversion and restoration of outbuilding to form storage on ground floor and home office over.

Received
5 March 2018
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Cowden & Hever
  1. Received5 Mar
  2. Validated5 Mar
  3. Consult.4 Apr
  4. Target30 Apr
  5. Decided26 Apr

Decided in 52 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for an outbuilding at Basing Furnace Lane Cowden KENT TN8 7JU. Sevenoaks has handled 1,736 applications of this type. This one was decided in 52 days, 4 days quicker than Sevenoaks's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area, with 1 listed building nearby. There have been 2 other applications 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
Householder Application
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Cowden

Planning application dates

Date validated
5 March 2018
Consultation expiry
5 April 2018
Consultation start
20 March 2018
Consultation end
4 April 2018
Neighbour consultation start
8 March 2018
Neighbour consultation end
29 March 2018
Last date for comments
5 April 2018
Target decision date
30 April 2018
Permission expires
26 April 2021

Applicant and agent

Agent address
11 -13 High Street Tunbridge Wells TN1 1UL

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Last advertised
15 March 2018
Advertisement expiry
5 April 2018
Site notice start
16 March 2018
Site notice end
5 April 2018

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-06763773
Documents
6
Constraints
18

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

  • Flood zone 3: High probability (rivers and sea)
  • Listed building: Grade II: BasingOn or next to this site
  • Green belt: Sevenoaks
  • National Landscape (AONB): High Weald

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, 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.

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.

Associated applications

  1. 2018
    5 Mar

    Part conversion and restoration of outbuilding to form storage on ground floor and home office over.

    This applicationApprovedFull18/00727/HOUSE
  2. 2018
    5 Mar

    Part conversion and restoration of outbuilding to form storage on ground floor and home office over.

    ApprovedListed building consentFiled alongside18/00728/LBCALT

Source: Sevenoaks

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