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Cobdown Sports Ground Station Road Ditton Aylesford Kent

26/00641/RDPermitted
Discharge / amendments

Proposal

Details of condition 8 (Dimensioned Tree Protection Plan) Pursuant to planning permission TM/25/01319/PA Full planning permission for development at Cobdown Park to provide a football training centre (sui generis), comprising of the demolition and redevelopment of existing Clubhouse building, refurbishment of existing Academy building; demolition of ancillary buildings and structures across the Site; provision of new grounds maintenance building and service area; refurbishment of existing pavilion building to provide upgraded changing and kitchen facilities; provision of new upgraded grass football pitches and upgrade of existing synthetic surface; new areas for car and cycle parking; upgrade to existing sports lighting; boundary treatment and hard and soft landscaping and associated site infrastructure and site plant

Received
8 April 2026
Decided
16 September 2026 · Approved
Public comments
0 · last counted 15 October 2026
Ward
Aylesford South And Ditton
Approximate location: the centre of the postcode, not the exact property.
  1. Received8 Apr
  2. Validated8 Apr
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided16 Sep

Decided in 161 days

This is a planning application for demolition at Cobdown Sports Ground Station Road Ditton Aylesford Kent. Tonbridge has handled 6,108 applications of this type and approves 93% of them, typically deciding them in 58 days. This one was decided in 161 days, 15 weeks longer than Tonbridge's median. There have been 11 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 126 applications across Aylesford South And Ditton.

Application Details

Reference
26/00641/RD
Address
Cobdown Sports Ground Station Road Ditton Aylesford Kent
Local Authority
Tonbridge
Decision Status
Permitted
Current Status
Decided
Ward
Aylesford South And Ditton
Parish
Ditton

Applicant & Agent

Planning Application Dates

Date Received
8 April 2026
Date Decided
16 September 2026
Date Validated
8 April 2026
Date Submitted
8 April 2026

Planning Decision

Decision
Approved
Case Officer
Matthew Broome

Publicity

Appeal

Additional Information

Documents
5
Coordinates
51.309310, 0.486733
Enriching application data
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Source: Tonbridge

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Planning history at this site

11 other applications at this property, newest first.

  1. 2026
    8 Oct

    Details of Economic Development Strategy Section, schedule 2 paragraph 2.1 submitted pursuant to S106…

    PendingApplication26/01855/OB106D
  2. 2026
    9 Sep

    Details of Condition 12 (Bio diversity plan) and 13 (Habitat management and monitoring plan) submitted…

    PendingApplication26/01670/RD
  3. 2026
    7 Sep

    Details of Condition 19 (External lighting plan) sumitted pursuant to planning permission TM/25/01319/FL

    PendingApplication26/01653/RD
  4. 2026
    22 Jul

    Details of condition 10 (Landscape levels) pursuant to planning permission TM/25/01319/FL

    PendingApplication26/01380/RD
  5. 2026
    20 Jul

    Details of condition 9 (Excavation for services) pursuant to planning permission TM/25/01319/PA

    ApprovedApplication26/01350/RD
  6. 2026
    2 Jul

    Details of condition 4 (noise mitigation) pursuant to planning permission TM/25/01144/FL

    ApprovedApplication26/01243/RD

Planning constraints

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Flood zone 3: High probability (rivers and sea)Part of the site

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 (22)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, 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.

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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 2026-10-09. The most publicly available up to date Historic England GIS Data can be obtained from HistoricEngland.org.uk.

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© 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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