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Roughway Farm Roughway Lane Roughway Tonbridge Kent

23/01425/FLPlanning PermissionApproved
Full

Approved on 24 August 2023

Delegated (officer decision)

Proposal

Set-aside area of land for the creation of a 150m2 wildlife pond for Great Crested Newts, under Natural England's District Level Licensing Scheme

Received
3 July 2023
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Bourne
  1. Received3 Jul
  2. Validated3 Jul
  3. Consult.
  4. Target28 Aug
  5. Decided24 Aug

Decided in 52 days (council typically 63)

About this application

This is a full planning application at Roughway Farm Roughway Lane Roughway 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. The site is in 3 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 186 applications across Bourne.

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 1

Planning application dates

Date validated
3 July 2023
Consultation expiry
3 August 2023
Consultation start
6 July 2023
Neighbour consultation start
5 July 2023
Target decision date
28 August 2023
Permission expires
24 August 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Mrs Sarah Harrington-James 3 Lock Cottages Lock Lane Sandling Maidstone Kent ME14 3AU

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Site notice start
13 July 2023
Site notice end
3 August 2023

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-12279770
UPRN
010092974524
Documents
14

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

  • 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 (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

Contains public sector information from planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG and local planning authorities), licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© 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: Tonbridge

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