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The Oast House Court Lodge Valley Road Fawkham Kent DA3 8NA

25/03064/LDCEXLawful Development Certificate ExistingApproved
Lawful development certificate

Approved on 18 December 2025

Council decision: GrantedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Use of The Oast House as a separate dwellinghouse with associated garden.

Received
28 October 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Fawkham & West Kingsdown
  1. Received28 Oct
  2. Validated28 Oct
  3. Consult.24 Nov
  4. Target23 Dec
  5. Decided18 Dec

Decided in 51 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at The Oast House Court Lodge Valley Road Fawkham Kent DA3 8NA. Sevenoaks has handled 332 applications of this type. This one was decided in 51 days, 5 days quicker than Sevenoaks's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area, with 1 listed building nearby. There are no previous applications recorded 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 8NA
Application type
Lawful Development Certificate Existing
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Fawkham

Planning application dates

Date validated
28 October 2025
Last date for comments
24 November 2025
Target decision date
23 December 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent address
8 The Orpines Wateringbury ME18 5BP

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14440441
Documents
9
Constraints
27

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Green belt: Sevenoaks
  • 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 (21)

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, 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.

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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