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Home Farm, Hythe Road, Smeeth, TN25 6SP

Granted Ashford PA/2025/1630 Full planning permission

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
Granted As published: 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.

  • NOT/2024/2207 Granted

    Home Farm, Hythe Road, Smeeth, TN25 6SP

    Prior notification for a steel framed barn.

    Decided 20 Dec 2024 Prior approval
  • PA/2024/1688 Granted

    Home Farm, Hythe Road, Smeeth, TN25 6SP

    Proposed siting of 43 self-storage shipping containers.

    Decided 8 Nov 2024 Full applications

Timeline

Dates from the published record

  1. 4 Sep 2025

    Received by Ashford

  2. 29 Sep 2025

    Validated

    Checked as complete and ready for consideration.

  3. 26 Nov 2025

    Decision issued: Approve with Conditions

  4. 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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What 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.

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