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Commuter Car Park Lord Lees Grove Blue Bell Hill Chatham Kent

26/01619/NMAPending Decision
Discharge / amendments

Proposal

Non-Material Amendment to planning permission TM/25/01938/FL Erection of a modular building comprising 12no. self-contained apartments for use as temporary housing accommodation, including associated landscaping, refuse / cycle store, parking and office. To alter approved plans and documents referenced within Condition 2 and amend the wording of conditions 5 and 7 to reflect the updated drawings to incorporate a substation within the main boundary, loss of one dedicated staff car parking, re-configuration of parking bays and amenity space access on the Western parking bay row

Received
2 September 2026
Ward
Aylesford North And North Downs
Approximate location: the centre of the postcode, not the exact property.
  1. Received2 Sep
  2. Validated2 Sep
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided

This is a planning application at Commuter Car Park Lord Lees Grove Blue Bell Hill Chatham Kent. Tonbridge has handled 6,108 applications of this type and approves 93% of them, typically deciding them in 58 days. It was submitted on 2 September 2026 and is still awaiting a decision. The site is in the Tonbridge conservation area, with 2 listed buildings nearby. There have been 2 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 89 applications across Aylesford North And North Downs.

Application Details

Reference
26/01619/NMA
Address
Commuter Car Park Lord Lees Grove Blue Bell Hill Chatham Kent
Local Authority
Tonbridge
Decision Status
Undecided
Ward
Aylesford North And North Downs
Parish
Aylesford

Applicant & Agent

Planning Application Dates

Date Received
2 September 2026
Date Validated
2 September 2026
Date Submitted
2 September 2026

Planning Decision

Case Officer
Matthew Broome

Publicity

Appeal

Additional Information

Documents
15
Coordinates
51.195550, 0.275071
Enriching application data
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Source: Tonbridge

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Planning constraints

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

  • Flood zone 2: Medium probability (rivers and sea)
  • Conservation area: Tonbridge

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, 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.

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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 2026-10-09. 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.

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The site is in flood zone 2 (Environment Agency).

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