Planning application
Keepers Lodge Common Road Chatham Kent ME5 9RJ
Works: New dwelling Domestic
Read from the description, not a valuation. How we read the register
Permission granted. Work must normally begin within three years of the decision or the permission lapses.
Proposal
Retrospective change of use and replacement of building 7 to provide 1 x 3-bedroom residential self-build dwelling
As published by the council, reference 25/01379/FL
Application record
- Reference
- 25/01379/FL
- Type
- Planning Permission
- Status
- Decided
- Decision
- Granted As published: Approved
- Received
- 19 Aug 2025
- Validated
- 22 Aug 2025
- Decided
- 11 Mar 2026
- Ward
- Aylesford North And North Downs
- Parish
- Wouldham
- Decision by
- Delegated Decision
- Postcode
- ME5 9RJ
Site history
Applications at this address on the Tonbridge and Malling register
This site has had 3 applications since 2025: 1 approved, 0 refused.
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26/01216/FL Awaiting decision
Keepers Lodge Common Road Chatham Kent ME5 9RJ
Single-storey front extension
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26/01096/RD Awaiting decision
Keepers Lodge Common Road Chatham Kent ME5 9RJ
Details of Conditions 3 (Landscape Strategy Plan), 4 (Parking, Access and Drainage Plan), 5 (Cycle and Refuse Plan), 7 (Lighting) and 8 (Biodiversity Enhancement Plan) submitted pursuant to planning permission TM/25/01379/FL (Retrospective change of use and replacement of building 7 to provide 1 x 3-bedroom residential self-build dwelling)
Timeline
Dates from the published record
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19 Aug 2025
Received by Tonbridge and Malling
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22 Aug 2025
Validated
Checked as complete and ready for consideration.
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11 Mar 2026
Decision issued: Approved
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8 Aug 2026
Added to PlanIndex
Related applications
Cases linked to this one on the register
1 later application on the register refers to this one:
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26/01096/RD Awaiting decision
Keepers Lodge Common Road Chatham Kent ME5 9RJ
Details of Conditions 3 (Landscape Strategy Plan), 4 (Parking, Access and Drainage Plan), 5 (Cycle and Refuse Plan), 7 (Lighting) and 8 (Biodiversity Enhancement Plan) submitted pursuant to planning permission TM/25/01379/FL (Retrospective change of use and replacement of building 7 to provide 1 x 3-bedroom residential self-build dwelling)
Documents
Plans, drawings, consultee responses and the officer's report
26 documents on file for this application
- DELEGATED REPORT
- DECISION NOTICE
- 001 Site location plan redacted
- 002 Existing site plan redacted
- 003 Proposed site plan redacted
- 004 Existing and proposed ground floor plan redacted
- 006 Existing and proposed roof plan redacted
- 010 Existing and proposed North elevation redacted
- 011 Existing and proposed South Elevation redacted
- 012 Existing and proposed East elevation redacted
- 013 Existing and proposed West elevation redacted
- KCC Ecological Advice Service comments
- Environmental Health Protection comments
- Waste Services
- Natural England
- Site notice
- 010 Existing and proposed North elevation redacted
- 013 Existing and proposed West elevation redacted
- Revised application form stating self build
- 006 Existing and proposed roof plan redacted
- 011 Existing and proposed South Elevation redacted
- 012 Existing and proposed East elevation redacted
- 001 Site location plan redacted
- 002 Existing site plan redacted
- 003 Proposed site plan redacted
- 004 Existing and proposed ground floor plan redacted
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Open the documentsWhat this grant of permission means
Tonbridge and Malling granted permission on 11 March 2026, 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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