Munday Farm Hop Pickers' Huts, Egerton Road, Pluckley, Ashford, TN27 0PD Data via plota.co.uk

OTH/2026/0666 - Listed Building - New Listing Valid

Proposal

New listing - List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest. The building is now listed at Grade II List Entry Number: 1496821 Hop pickers’ huts. Built in the late nineteenth century. More information can be found at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

✓
Received
31 Mar 2026
Decision
Expected by 26 May 2026

Under consideration

No decision has been issued yet. Plota predicted a decision around 9 Oct 2026; it is now day 192.

Site constraints 5

4 listed buildings within 150 m of the postcode pin
Nearest: Munday Farmhouse, Grade II, the postcode pin is inside its outline · 4 Grade II
The site itself is not listed. Listed building consent is needed for work that affects the special interest of a listed building, inside or out, on top of planning permission. Setting can be a consideration for buildings nearby; there is no fixed radius.
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Historic England ↗
Habitat network: Network Enhancement Zone 1
Where habitat is joined up enough to work as a network. Context, not a constraint on its own.
Also on the record
Radon affected area, class 2; Inside the Pluckley built-up area; Natural England's Provisional ALC map (1:250,000, 1970s) had this area as grade 2, but it predates the buildings here and the current map does not class it as farmland.
Not affected
Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · Not green belt · No scheduled monument at the site

Checked on 6 October 2026. The pin for this application is the centre of its postcode rather than the building, so distances to nearby designations are measured from the postcode and can be out by the width of the postcode area. Historic England, the Environment Agency, Natural England, the British Geological Survey and UK Health Security Agency (radon, contains BGS materials © UKRI) and council datasets, Open Government Licence. A boundary can run through a site and the council holds the definitive record: confirm with the council before relying on this.

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Important details

Council
Ashford
Application type
Listed Building - New Listing
Postcode
TN27 0PD
Received
31 Mar 2026
Validated
31 Mar 2026
Ward
Upper Weald
Parish
Pluckley;Pluckley
Case officer
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Decision level
Delegated Decision
Applicant
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Decision outlook

Day 192, past the statutory target. 43% of listed building consent in Ashford are decided within thirteen weeks; extensions of time are common, and the council need not decide on the day. Last seen undecided on 4 Oct 2026.

Day 192136 days past the 56-day target
16%decided within 8 weeks
79%approved
86decided in the last year

Plota live figures for listed building consent decided by Ashford in the last twelve months, from validation. Ashford decision record →

Public comments

No public comments yet.

Last counted 4 Oct 2026

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Ashford
Planning Authority Score
5.9/10
Average
#105 of 296 councils
Relevant to this application:
Other decisions

Ashford is faster than most councils at deciding householder applications, ranking #75 out of 296. Householder applications are slightly more likely to be approved here (92%) than the national average (90%).

Faster than most councils
for householder decisions
These figures are council-wide context, not a prediction for this application. View full council performance
Ashford decision statistics
Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026
88%
Overall approval rate
Above avg (87%) #147 of 296
92%
Householder approved
Above avg (90%) #146 of 296
75%
Decided in 8 weeks
Above avg (63%) #75 of 296
40%
Extended time limit
Below avg (41%) #146 of 296
71%
Minor dwellings approved
106 decided (1-9 homes)
89%
Major dwellings approved
18 decided (10+ homes)
90%
Change of use approved
40 decided
991
Total decisions
123 refused in the year to March 2026