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Unit For Packing Roughway Farm Roughway Lane Roughway Tonbridge Kent

25/02012/PDV14JPD solar equipment non-domestic premisesApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 22 January 2026

Council decision: Prior Approval Not RequiredDelegated (officer decision)

Proposal

Prior approval for the installation of solar equipment on non-domestic premises under Class J of Part 14 of Schedule 2 of the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) Order 2015 (GPDO) (as amended): Installation of 48.2KW roof mounted solar panels on existing cold store and packhouse

Received
2 December 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Bourne
  1. Received2 Dec
  2. Validated3 Dec
  3. Consult.5 Jan
  4. Target27 Jan
  5. Decided22 Jan

Decided in 50 days (council typically 63)

About this application

This is an outline application for a solar installation at Unit For Packing Roughway Farm Roughway Lane Roughway Tonbridge Kent. Tonbridge has handled 1,058 applications of this type. This one was decided in 51 days, 12 days quicker than Tonbridge's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 186 applications across Bourne.

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

Application type
PD solar equipment non-domestic premises
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Plaxtol

Planning application dates

Date validated
3 December 2025
Consultation expiry
5 January 2026
Consultation start
15 December 2025
Consultation end
5 January 2026
Last date for comments
5 January 2026
Target decision date
27 January 2026
Permission expires
22 January 2031

Planning decision

Statutory period
55 days

Publicity

Site notice start
10 December 2025
Site notice end
31 December 2025

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14530083
Documents
11
Constraints
53

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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