Planning application
Home Farm, Hythe Road, Smeeth, TN25 6SP
Permission granted. Work must normally begin within three years of the decision or the permission lapses.
Proposal
Change of use from B8 (Storage & Distribution) to a timber retailer with some timber furniture manufacturing (sui generis) and the installation of mobile racking for timber storage (retrospective)
As published by the council, reference PA/2025/1630
Application record
- Reference
- PA/2025/1630
- Type
- Full planning permission
- Status
- Decision Made
- Decision
- Approve with Conditions
- Received
- 4 Sep 2025
- Validated
- 29 Sep 2025
- Decided
- 26 Nov 2025
- Ward
- Bircholt
- Parish
- Smeeth
- Decision by
- Delegated Decision
- Postcode
- TN25 6SP
Site history
Applications at this address on the Ashford register
This site has had 3 applications since 2024: 3 approved, 0 refused.
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NOT/2024/2207 Granted
Home Farm, Hythe Road, Smeeth, TN25 6SP
Prior notification for a steel framed barn.
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PA/2024/1688 Granted
Home Farm, Hythe Road, Smeeth, TN25 6SP
Proposed siting of 43 self-storage shipping containers.
Timeline
Dates from the published record
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4 Sep 2025
Received by Ashford
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29 Sep 2025
Validated
Checked as complete and ready for consideration.
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26 Nov 2025
Decision issued: Approve with Conditions
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13 Aug 2026
Added to PlanIndex
Documents
Plans, drawings, consultee responses and the officer's report
9 documents on file for this application
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Open the documentsWhat this grant of permission means
Ashford granted permission on 26 November 2025, subject to any conditions on the decision notice. Work must normally begin within three years or the permission lapses. More in our guide to what happens after a planning decision.
About full applications
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