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Sand School Roughway Farm Roughway Lane Plaxtol Tonbridge Kent

20/00108/FLPlanning PermissionApproved
Full

Approved on 12 March 2020

Delegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Section 73 application for the Variation of condition 8 to change the number of horses in the sand school from 2 to 5 pursuant to planning permission TM/16/02123/FL (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
20 January 2020
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Borough Green And Long Mill
  1. Received20 Jan
  2. Validated20 Jan
  3. Consult.20 Feb
  4. Target16 Mar
  5. Decided12 Mar

Decided in 52 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 52 days, 11 days quicker 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
District
Team 2

Planning application dates

Date validated
20 January 2020
Consultation expiry
20 February 2020
Consultation start
2 March 2020
Consultation end
20 February 2020
Neighbour consultation start
24 January 2020
Target decision date
16 March 2020
Permission expires
12 March 2023

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

First advertised
30 January 2020
Last advertised
30 January 2020
Advertisement expiry
20 February 2020
Site notice start
29 January 2020
Site notice end
19 February 2020

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-08421399
UPRN
010092972749
Documents
52

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.

Data © Crown copyright and others · sources and licences

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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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