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Orchard Place Farm Comp Lane Sevenoaks TN15 8QU

23/01736/FLMinor planning permissionRefused
Full

Refused on 3 November 2023

Council decision: RefuseDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

New storage building (cold store) following demolition of old store, coldstore and stables

Received
14 August 2023
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
East Malling West Malling And Offham
  1. Received14 Aug
  2. Validated22 Aug
  3. Consult.
  4. Target17 Oct
  5. Decided3 Nov

Decided in 73 days (council typically 63)

About this application

This is a full planning application for demolition at Orchard Place Farm Comp Lane Sevenoaks TN15 8QU. Tonbridge has handled 2,266 applications of this type. This one was decided in 81 days, 3 weeks longer 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 176 applications across East Malling West Malling And Offham. We hold 2,787 applications in total for the TN15 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
TN15 8QU
Application type
Minor planning permission
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Offham
District
Team 2

Planning application dates

Date validated
22 August 2023
Consultation expiry
20 September 2023
Neighbour consultation start
25 August 2023
Target decision date
17 October 2023

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Mr Martin Dadd The Doctors House Royal British Legion Village Hall Road Aylesford Kent ME20 7QX

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Site notice start
30 August 2023
Site notice end
20 September 2023

Additional information

UPRN
200000959519
Documents
16

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • 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

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© 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.

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