Premier Inn Castle Way Leybourne West Malling Kent
Approved on 29 September 2026
Delegated (officer decision)
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Proposal
Details of Condition 9 (Surface water drainage verification report) submitted pursuant to planning permission TM/24/01098/FL (Demolition of existing hotel restaurant and replacement with new building providing additional hotel bedrooms and breakfast room, together with alterations to the car park and all associated works)
- Received
- 24 July 2026
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Public comments
- 0 · last counted 8 November 2026
- Ward
- Birling Leybourne And Ryarsh
- Agent
- Walsingham Planning
- ReceivedReceived24 Jul
- ValidatedValidated24 Jul
- Consult.Consultation19 Aug
- TargetTarget Date18 Sep
- DecidedDecided29 Sep
Decided in 67 days (council typically 63)
About this application
This is an outline application for demolition at Premier Inn Castle Way Leybourne West Malling Kent. Tonbridge has handled 1,058 applications of this type. This one was decided in 67 days, 4 days longer than Tonbridge's typical decision time. There have been 2 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 42 applications across Birling Leybourne And Ryarsh.
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
- Reserved Details
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Leybourne
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 24 July 2026
- Consultation expiry
- 19 August 2026
- Consultation start
- 29 July 2026
- Consultation end
- 19 August 2026
- Last date for comments
- 19 August 2026
- Target decision date
- 18 September 2026
Applicant and agent
- Agent
- Walsingham Planning
- Agent address
- Bourne House Cores End Road Bourne End Buckinghamshire SL8 5AR
Planning decision
- Case officer
- Susan Field
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Additional information
- Planning Portal ID
- PP-15104398
- Documents
- 10
- Constraints
- 63
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Flood zone 3: High probability (rivers and sea)Part of the site
- Green belt: Tonbridge and MallingPart 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 (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.
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Planning history at this site
2 other applications at this property, newest first.
Source: Tonbridge
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