Sunny Side Round Street Cobham Gravesend Kent DA13 9AY Data via plota.co.uk

20260261 - Proposed Lawful Development Certificate Refused

Proposal

Application for a Proposed Lawful Development Certificate; Demolition of existing single storey rear extension. Erection of a part two storey/part single storey rear extension. Erection of a single storey side extension. Data via plota.co.uk

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View original council record ↗Last checked 24 Aug 2026, 08:51

Application progress

✓

Received

9 Mar 2026

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Refused

1 May 2026

Appeal

Not lodged

Refused on 1 May 2026 · Delegated Decision · Last checked 5 Jul 2026

Documents

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Site constraints 6

Green belt: London

Inappropriate development needs very special circumstances.

Green belt policy allows a short list of exceptions, such as limited extensions and replacement buildings. Anything else needs very special circumstances that clearly outweigh the harm. Some green belt land can count as grey belt, where it does not strongly serve the green belt's purposes. The council decides this in its green belt assessment or on each application, so we do not mark it here.

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Agricultural land, grade 3a

Best and most versatile land (grades 1, 2 and 3a). Source: the Predictive Agricultural Land Classification Map (Defra and Natural England, 2025; the Welsh Government's Predictive ALC Map 2 in Wales), a model rather than a site survey. Natural England's Provisional ALC map (1:250,000, 1970s), which most planning maps still show, had this area as grade 1. The predicted grade is Defra's current estimate; only a site survey settles it.

Where development of farmland is needed, policy prefers poorer land over the best and most versatile (grades 1, 2 and 3a). Three sources: Natural England's post-1988 field surveys, which are definitive where they exist; the Defra predictive map for England (2025) and the Welsh Government predictive map, modelled from the soil map with 3a and 3b split; and the 1970s provisional map, which planners and other services still show, coarser and with grade 3 undivided. Where the provisional and predicted grades disagree, treat the predicted grade as the current estimate and expect an application to carry its own survey.

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

National infrastructure project about 1283 m away: Lower Thames Crossing; Radon affected area, class 2; 1 listed building within 150 m of the postcode pin.

Not affected

Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · 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 Planning Inspectorate, 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.

Sales history 1

Last sold for £545,000 in February 2025. Semi-detached house, freehold.

21 February 2025£545,000

Sale prices from HM Land Registry's price paid record, matched to this application by its address.

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Important details

Council: Gravesham
Application type: Proposed Lawful Development Certificate
Postcode: DA13 9AY
Received: 9 Mar 2026
Validated: 9 Mar 2026
Ward: Istead Rise, Cobham And Luddesdown
Parish: Cobham
Case officer: Show
Target decision: 4 May 2026
Decision: Certificate Refused
Decision date: 1 May 2026
Decision level: Delegated Decision
Applicant: Show
Agent: Show

How this decision compares

Decided in 53 days from validation, about the council's usual 55 days. Refused, as 30% of demolitions here are.

This one53d

Council55d

UK56d

68%decided within 8 weeks

70%approved

90decided in the last year

Plota live figures for demolitions decided by Gravesham in the last twelve months, from validation. Gravesham decision record →

Consultation & key dates

Alt. reference: PP-14297900
Planning Portal ref: PP-14297900
Statutory expiry: 4 May 2026
Env. assessment: No

Historical activity at this location

4 nearby applications on record - archival context, not part of the live application.

Within ~100m

Nearby activity

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Gravesham

Planning Authority Score

4.4/10

Below average

#180 of 296 councils

Relevant to this application:

Householder decisions

Gravesham ranks #104 out of 296 councils for householder decision speed. Gravesham is also one of the strictest councils - it refuses more householder applications than almost any other, with only 78% approved vs 90% nationally.

One of the strictest councils

only 78% approved vs 90% nationally

These figures are council-wide context, not a prediction for this application. View full council performance

Gravesham decision statistics

Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026

75%

Overall approval rate

Below avg (87%) #287 of 296

78%

Householder approved

Below avg (90%) #286 of 296

72%

Decided in 8 weeks

Above avg (63%) #104 of 296

36%

Extended time limit

Below avg (41%) #110 of 296

58%

Minor dwellings approved

64 decided (1-9 homes)

50%

Major dwellings approved

6 decided (10+ homes)

65%

Change of use approved

34 decided

619

Total decisions

156 refused in the year to March 2026