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Sand School Roughway Farm Roughway Lane Plaxtol Tonbridge Kent

16/02123/FLPlanning PermissionApproved
Full

Approved on 20 September 2016

Delegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Change of use of agricultural land to allow the construction of a sand school, with associated access and hard standing, for private and commercial equestrian use (north of May Cottage)

Received
8 July 2016
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Borough Green And Long Mill
  1. Received8 Jul
  2. Validated16 Aug
  3. Consult.
  4. Target11 Oct
  5. Decided20 Sep

Decided in 35 days (council typically 63)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at Sand School Roughway Farm Roughway Lane Plaxtol Tonbridge Kent. Tonbridge has handled 2,266 applications of this type. This one was decided in 74 days, 11 days longer than Tonbridge's typical decision time. There have been 2 other applications at this address.

93% of full applications at Tonbridge and Malling Borough Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 9 weeks (median).

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Application details

Application type
Planning Permission
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Plaxtol

Planning application dates

Date validated
16 August 2016
Consultation expiry
9 September 2016
Consultation start
3 August 2016
Neighbour consultation start
4 August 2016
Target decision date
11 October 2016

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Last advertised
19 August 2016
Advertisement expiry
9 September 2016
Site notice start
10 August 2016
Site notice end
31 August 2016

Additional information

Documents
19

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Roughway, PlaxtolPart of the site
  • Green belt: Tonbridge and Malling
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

Not published by this council, so not checked: Article 4 directions. Ask the council if these matter.

Possibly incomplete for this council: tree preservation orders.

Also checked, none recorded (20)

flood storage 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.

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