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Mercure Brands Hatch Hotel London Road West Kingsdown Kent DA3 8PE

25/02242/LDCEXLawful Development Certificate ExistingAwaiting decision
Lawful development certificate
Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

The application seeks a Certificate of Lawfulness for the refurbishment and internal reconfiguration of upper floor loft and room space within the existing Mercure Hotel building.

Received
7 August 2025
Decision due
2 October 2025
Ward
Fawkham & West Kingsdown
  1. Received7 Aug
  2. Validated7 Aug
  3. Consult.13 Sep
  4. Target2 Oct
  5. Decided

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Comments close on 13 September.

Comment on the council's siteDocuments (8)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at Mercure Brands Hatch Hotel London Road West Kingsdown Kent DA3 8PE. Sevenoaks has handled 332 applications of this type. It has been with the council since 7 August 2025 and is still awaiting a decision. 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.

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
DA3 8PE
Application type
Lawful Development Certificate Existing
Scale / size
Small
Parish
West Kingsdown

Planning application dates

Date validated
7 August 2025
Last date for comments
13 September 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Studio 11 6-8 Cole Street London SE1 4YH

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14235652
Documents
8
Constraints
35

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Green belt: Sevenoaks
  • Ancient woodland: Shetleys ShawPart 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 (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, National Landscapes, 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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© 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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