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Chandlers Wood Mapleton Road Westerham KENT TN16 1PT

21/02653/LDCEXLawful Development Certificate ExistingRefused
Lawful development certificate

Refused on 10 February 2022

Delegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

This application seeks to establish that the now constructed dwelling is granted by virtue of planning permission SE/98/1775 and does not have to comply with the occupancy condition attached to SE/94/1935.

Received
10 August 2021
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Westerham & Crockham Hill
  1. Received10 Aug
  2. Validated23 Aug
  3. Consult.16 Sep
  4. Target18 Oct
  5. Decided10 Feb

Decided in 171 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at Chandlers Wood Mapleton Road Westerham KENT TN16 1PT. Sevenoaks has handled 332 applications of this type. This one was decided in 184 days, 18 weeks longer than Sevenoaks's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 41 applications across Westerham & Crockham Hill. We hold 2,973 applications in total for the TN16 postcode area.

95% of amendment 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
TN16 1PT
Application type
Lawful Development Certificate Existing
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Westerham

Planning application dates

Date validated
23 August 2021
Last date for comments
16 September 2021
Target decision date
18 October 2021

Applicant and agent

Agent address
53 - 55 High Street Cranbrook TN17 3EE

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-10113705
Documents
6
Constraints
19

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Green belt: Sevenoaks
  • National Landscape (AONB): Kent Downs
  • Ancient woodlandPart of the site
  • 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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