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Saxbys Station Road Cowden Kent TN8 7DU

23/00881/LDCEXLawful Development Certificate ExistingApproved
Lawful development certificate

Approved on 31 May 2023

Council decision: GrantedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Confirmation that attached garden room to main house and detached garage within garden is lawful.

Received
24 March 2023
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Cowden & Hever
  1. Received24 Mar
  2. Validated5 Apr
  3. Consult.5 May
  4. Target31 May
  5. Decided31 May

Decided in 56 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at Saxbys Station Road Cowden Kent TN8 7DU. Sevenoaks has handled 332 applications of this type. This one was decided in 68 days, 12 days 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 22 applications across Cowden & Hever. We hold 1,036 applications in total for the TN8 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
TN8 7DU
Application type
Lawful Development Certificate Existing
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Cowden

Planning application dates

Date validated
5 April 2023
Last date for comments
5 May 2023
Target decision date
31 May 2023

Applicant and agent

Agent address
1 Coopers Wood Crowborough TN6 1SW

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-12033568
Documents
10
Constraints
17

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Green belt: Sevenoaks
  • National Landscape (AONB): High Weald
  • 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 (20)

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, 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

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© 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.

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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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