The Swan, The Green, West Peckham, Maidstone, ME18 5JW
Refused on 13 November 2025
Council decision: RefuseDelegated (officer decision)
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Proposal
Lawful Development Certificate Proposed: Modification of the existing ground floor store room including the replacement of the existing monopitch roof to a flat roof with 2 rooflights and the raising in height of the existing roof verge to the rear of the property
- Received
- 5 September 2025
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Ward
- East & West Peckham Mereworth And Wbury
- ReceivedReceived5 Sep
- ValidatedValidated19 Sep
- Consult.Consultation
- TargetTarget Date14 Nov
- DecidedDecided13 Nov
Decided in 55 days (council typically 63)
About this application
This is an outline application at The Swan, The Green, West Peckham, Maidstone, ME18 5JW. Tonbridge has handled 1,058 applications of this type. This one was decided in 69 days, 6 days longer than Tonbridge's typical decision time. The site is in the West Peckham conservation area, with 4 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 110 applications across East & West Peckham Mereworth And Wbury. We hold 199 applications in total for the ME18 postcode area.
93% of outline 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 5JW
- Application type
- Lawful Development Cert Proposed NEW
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- West Peckham
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 19 September 2025
- Target decision date
- 14 November 2025
- Application expires
- 15 October 2025
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Additional information
- Planning Portal ID
- PP-14301222
- UPRN
- 200000959456
- Documents
- 27
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Conservation area: West Peckham
- 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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Planning history at this site
2 other applications at this property, newest first.
- 202621 Sep
2 x Common Walnut (T443 and T444 applicant reference) - Remove deadwood of the diameter 1.5 inches and above…
ApprovedApplication26/01753/TNCA - 202531 Dec
The partial demolition of a single storey side extension and replacement of an existing monopitch roof with a…
ApprovedPlanning Permission25/02183/FL
Source: Tonbridge
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