Planning application
Premier Inn Castle Way Leybourne West Malling Kent
Works: Demolition
Still open. Anyone can comment while the consultation period runs, and comments go to the council rather than to us.
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)
As published by the council, reference 26/01398/RD
Application record
- Reference
- 26/01398/RD
- Status
- Registered
- Received
- 24 Jul 2026
- Validated
- 24 Jul 2026
- Ward
- Birling Leybourne And Ryarsh
- Parish
- Leybourne
- Decision by
- Delegated
Site history
Applications at this address on the Tonbridge and Malling register
This site has had 3 applications since 2025: 2 approved, 0 refused.
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26/00129/RD Granted
Premier Inn Castle Way Leybourne West Malling Kent
Detail of Condition 18 (Cycle Storage) submitted pursuant to planning permission TM/24/01098/PA (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 work)
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25/02036/RD Granted
Premier Inn Castle Way Leybourne West Malling Kent
Details of Condition 12 (External Lighting) submitted pursuant to planning permission TM/24/01098/PA (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)
Timeline
Dates from the published record
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24 Jul 2026
Received by Tonbridge and Malling
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1 Aug 2026
Added to PlanIndex
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Decision
Awaiting decision
Decision expected by 18 September 2026, 8 weeks from validation under the statutory target for most applications. Extensions of time are common and are agreed case by case.
Tonbridge and Malling took a median of 62 days over the applications it decided in the last year.
Who's behind it
Company information only, from the register and Companies House
Walsingham Planning Ltd Agent, a planning consultancy registered in Bourne End
Active · incorporated 2015 · Bourne End
414 applications on PlanIndex · across 122 councils · 91% granted
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See their track recordDocuments
Plans, drawings, consultee responses and the officer's report
6 documents on file for this application
- KCC SUDS
- KCC SUDS
- SOUTHERN WATER SERVICES
- ENVIRONMENT AGENCY
- APPLICATIONFORMREDACTED
- SURFACE WATER DRAINAGE VERIFICATION REPORT
Trade members open them from here.
Open the documentsWhat happens while it is decided
This application is with Tonbridge and Malling for determination, against a statutory target of eight weeks. Over the last year Tonbridge and Malling's median decision took 62 days. More in our guide to how long planning decisions take.
About this record
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