No 56 And The Old Smithy 58 High Street Farningham Kent DA4 0DB
Approved on 17 April 2026
Council decision: GrantedDelegated (officer decision)
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Proposal
Details pursuant to condition 8 (Construction Environmental Management Plan) of 23/03266/FUL.
- Received
- 9 March 2026
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- Sevenoaks District Council
- Ward
- Farningham, Horton Kirby & South Darenth
- ReceivedReceived9 Mar
- ValidatedValidated9 Mar
- Consult.Consultation8 Apr
- TargetTarget Date4 May
- DecidedDecided17 Apr
Decided in 39 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is an application to discharge conditions at No 56 And The Old Smithy 58 High Street Farningham Kent DA4 0DB. Sevenoaks has handled 1,598 applications of this type. This one was decided in 39 days, 2 weeks quicker than Sevenoaks's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area, with 12 listed buildings nearby. There have been 2 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 44 applications across Farningham, Horton Kirby & South Darenth. We hold 770 applications in total for the DA4 postcode area.
91% of conditions 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
- DA4 0DB
- Application type
- Approval of Details
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Farningham
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 9 March 2026
- Last date for comments
- 8 April 2026
- Target decision date
- 4 May 2026
- Permission expires
- 17 April 2031
Applicant and agent
- Agent address
- The Spinney Manor Lane Fawkham Kent DA3 8NB
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Additional information
- Planning Portal ID
- Documents
- 6
- Constraints
- 2
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Conservation area: Farningham
- Listed building: Grade II: No 56 (Vale View) and No 57 (Forge Cottage)On or next to this site · +1 more
- National Landscape (AONB): Kent Downs
- 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, green belt, 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.
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Associated applications
- 20269 Mar
Details pursuant to condition 7 (implementation of a watching brief) of 23/03266/FUL
ApprovedDischarge of conditionsFiled alongside26/00620/DETAIL - 20269 Mar
Details pursuant to condition 5 (phased contaminated land investigation of the site) of 23/03266/FUL
ApprovedDischarge of conditionsFiled alongside26/00621/DETAIL - 20269 Mar
Details pursuant to condition 8 (Construction Environmental Management Plan) of 23/03266/FUL
This applicationApprovedDischarge of conditions26/00680/DETAIL
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