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787, London Road, Larkfield, Aylesford, ME20 6DE

25/00111/PAMinor planning permissionApproved
Full

Approved on 18 July 2025

Delegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Change of use from Beauty salon to a tattoo studio

Received
22 January 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Larkfield
  1. Received22 Jan
  2. Validated11 Feb
  3. Consult.20 Mar
  4. Target8 Apr
  5. Decided18 Jul

Decided in 157 days (council typically 63)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at 787, LONDON ROAD, LARKFIELD, AYLESFORD, ME20 6DE. Tonbridge has handled 2,266 applications of this type. This one was decided in 177 days, 16 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 38 applications across Larkfield. We hold 649 applications in total for the ME20 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
ME20 6DE
Application type
Minor planning permission
Scale / size
Small
Parish
East Malling And Larkfield

Planning application dates

Date validated
11 February 2025
Consultation expiry
20 March 2025
Consultation end
20 March 2025
Target decision date
8 April 2025
Application expires
20 March 2025
Permission expires
17 July 2028

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

First advertised
27 February 2025
Site notice start
19 February 2025

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-13654234
UPRN
100062389586
Documents
9

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

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, green belt, 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.

Source: Tonbridge

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