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Land Adjoining Pumping Station, Medway Meadows, East Peckham, Tonbridge

25/01883/LDELawful Development Cert Existing NEWRefused
Lawful development certificate

Refused on 17 February 2026

Council decision: RefuseDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Lawful Development Certificate Existing: Use of the land edged red on the attached Location Plan as a touring caravan and camping area for holiday use, together with ancillary leisure and recreational use associated with that holiday use, but excluding any permanent residential use and excluding any use comprising the stationing of static caravans or similar structures.

Received
12 November 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
East & West Peckham Mereworth And Wbury
  1. Received12 Nov
  2. Validated10 Dec
  3. Consult.
  4. Target4 Feb
  5. Decided17 Feb

Decided in 69 days (council typically 63)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at Land Adjoining Pumping Station, Medway Meadows, East Peckham, Tonbridge. Tonbridge has handled 285 applications of this type. This one was decided in 97 days, 5 weeks longer than Tonbridge's typical decision time. The site is in 2 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.

93% of amendment 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
Lawful Development Cert Existing NEW
Scale / size
Small
Parish
East Peckham

Planning application dates

Date validated
10 December 2025
Target decision date
4 February 2026

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Documents
14
Constraints
1

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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© 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.

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Associated applications

  1. 2025
    12 Nov

    Lawful Development Certificate Existing: Use of the land edged red on the attached Location Plan as a touring…

    This applicationRefusedAmendment25/01883/LDE
  2. 2025
    12 Nov

    Lawful Development Certificate Existing : Continued use of site for Camping, Caravaning & Leisure Use

    PendingLawful Development Cert Existing NEWPart of25/01883/PA

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