Land Between Buckhurst And Buckhurst Lane Wilderness Lane Hever Kent

24/03313/AGRNOTAgricultural/Forestry NotificationApproved

Prior approval

Approved on 7 January 2025

Council decision: Prior Approval Not RequiredDelegated (officer decision)

Proposal

Erection of forestry building

Received: 10 December 2024
Decision level: Delegated (officer decision)
Council: Sevenoaks District Council
Ward: Cowden & Hever

ReceivedReceived10 Dec
ValidatedValidated10 Dec
Consult.Consultation12 Dec
TargetTarget Date7 Jan
DecidedDecided7 Jan

Decided in 28 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a planning application at Land Between Buckhurst And Buckhurst Lane Wilderness Lane Hever Kent. Sevenoaks has handled 70 applications of this type. This one was decided in 28 days, 4 weeks quicker 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.

91% of all 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: Agricultural/Forestry Notification
Scale / size: Small
Parish: Hever

Planning application dates

Date validated: 10 December 2024
Last date for comments: 12 December 2024
Target decision date: 7 January 2025
Permission expires: 7 January 2030

Planning decision

Statutory period: 28 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID: PP-13629270
Documents: 8
Constraints: 52

Site constraints

Checking the site

2/3

Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

Green belt: Sevenoaks
National Landscape (AONB): High Weald
Ancient woodland: Buckhurst
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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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.

Source: Sevenoaks

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