Land Adjoining Butchers Lane ME18 5QD
Refused on 25 October 2023
Council decision: RefuseDelegated (officer decision)
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Proposal
Erection of a one and a half storey detached dwelling with link attached garage, new vehicular access and associated works
- Received
- 2 February 2023
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Ward
- Downs And Mereworth
- ReceivedReceived2 Feb
- ValidatedValidated2 Feb
- Consult.Consultation9 Mar
- TargetTarget Date30 Mar
- DecidedDecided25 Oct
Decided in 265 days (council typically 63)
About this application
This is a full planning application for a garage at Land Adjoining Butchers Lane ME18 5QD. Tonbridge has handled 2,266 applications of this type. This one was decided in 265 days, 29 weeks longer than Tonbridge's typical decision time. The site is in the Butchers Lane, Mereworth conservation area, with 3 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. We hold 198 applications in total for the ME18 postcode area.
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
- Postcode
- ME18 5QD
- Application type
- Minor planning permission
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Mereworth (Mereworth)
- District
- Team 1
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 2 February 2023
- Consultation expiry
- 9 March 2023
- Consultation start
- 22 September 2023
- Consultation end
- 9 March 2023
- Neighbour consultation start
- 7 February 2023
- Target decision date
- 30 March 2023
- Application expires
- 23 April 2024
Applicant and agent
- Agent address
- Mr Darren Blackwell Innovation Centre Unit 65 Highfield Drive St Leonards-On-Sea TN38 9UH
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Publicity
- First advertised
- 16 February 2023
- Last advertised
- 16 February 2023
- Advertisement expiry
- 9 March 2023
- Site notice start
- 8 February 2023
- Site notice end
- 1 March 2023
Appeal
- Appeal type
- Written Representations
- Appeal date
- 30 November 2023
- Appeal result
- Appeal Dismissed
- Appeal decision date
- 6 December 2024
Appeal history
Additional information
- Planning Portal ID
- PP-11772813
- UPRN
- 010002910399
- Documents
- 42
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Conservation area: Butchers Lane, Mereworth
- Listed building: Grade II: Farm Building 20 Yards South West of the Queens Head Public HouseOn or next to this site · +1 more
- Green belt: Tonbridge and MallingPart of the site
- 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 (19)
flood storage areas, 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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