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Salts Farm Depot Fawkham Road Fawkham KENT DA3 7BJ

20/00882/OUTOutline Planning ApplicationRefused
Outline / PiP

Refused on 20 May 2020

Delegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Outline planning application for the erection of 26 dwellings with some matters reserved.

Received
25 March 2020
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Fawkham & West Kingsdown
  1. Received25 Mar
  2. Validated25 Mar
  3. Consult.19 May
  4. Target24 Jun
  5. Decided20 May

Decided in 56 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for a new dwelling at Salts Farm Depot Fawkham Road Fawkham KENT DA3 7BJ. Sevenoaks has handled 401 applications of this type. This one was decided in 56 days. The site is in a conservation area. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 45 applications across Fawkham & West Kingsdown. We hold 1,107 applications in total for the DA3 postcode area.

76% of outline 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
DA3 7BJ
Application type
Outline Planning Application
Scale / size
Large
Number of dwellings
26
Parish
Fawkham

Planning application dates

Date validated
25 March 2020
Last date for comments
19 May 2020
Target decision date
24 June 2020

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Eclipse House Eclipse park Sittingbourne Road Maidstone ME14 3EN

Planning decision

Statutory period
91 days

Appeal

Appeal reference
20/00117/RFPLN
Appeal status
Appeal decided
Appeal result
Appeal Allowed

Appeal history

3260956
Allowed
Type: Planning AppealProcedure: InquiryDecision: 13 April 2021Dev Type: Major dwellingsReason: Refusal
Green Belt

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-08597593
Documents
153
Constraints
16

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Green belt: Sevenoaks
  • Ancient woodlandPart of the site
  • Brownfield land register: Salts Farm Depot, Fawkham Road, Fawkham, KENT, DA3 7BJRegister site at or near this address · +1 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, National Landscapes, SSSIs, Special Areas of Conservation, Special Protection Areas, Ramsar sites, national nature reserves, local nature reserves and heritage coasts.

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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    Outline planning application for the erection of 26 dwellings with some matters reserved.

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