Land South Of Fallen Willows Horton Road South Darenth Kent DA4 9BS Data via plota.co.uk

26/02186/FUL - Full Application Pending

Proposal

Change of use of land to Gypsy/Traveller site comprising the siting of 2 Mobile Homes and 2 Touring Caravans, and erection of 1 dayroom. Post and rail fencing and gate. Hardstanding. Data via plota.co.uk

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View original council record ↗Last checked 13 Sept 2026, 06:31

Application progress

✓

Received

17 Aug 2026

✓

Validated

2 Sept 2026

Decision

Expected by 28 Oct 2026

This application is under consideration - no decision has been issued yet. Plota predicts a decision between 28 Oct 2026 and 14 Nov 2026, from Sevenoaks's recent changes of use.

Documents 8

Site constraints 3

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.

Flood zone 2, rivers and sea

Medium chance: between a 1 in 100 and 1 in 1,000 annual chance from rivers, or 1 in 200 to 1 in 1,000 from the sea. Any development here needs a flood risk assessment. Defences are not counted.

The Environment Agency flood map for planning. Homes in zone 3 must also pass the sequential test. Surface water flooding is a separate map.

Flood map ↗

Agricultural land, grade 3b

Not best and most versatile land (grades 1, 2 and 3a). Predicted from the national soil map. The older provisional map, which most planning maps still show, had this area as grade 4. 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.

Not affected

No listed building at the site · No scheduled monument at the site

Checked on 11 September 2026. Historic England, the Environment Agency, Natural England 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: Sevenoaks
Application type: Full Application
Postcode: DA4 9BS
Received: 17 Aug 2026
Validated: 2 Sept 2026
Ward: Farningham, Horton Kirby & South Darenth
Parish: Horton Kirby And South Darenth
Target decision: 28 Oct 2026
Applicant: Show
Agent: WS Planning & Architecture

Decision outlook

Day 12 of the 56-day target. Sevenoaks usually decides changes of use by day 56.

prediction

Day 1244 days to the 56-day target

54%decided within 8 weeks

68%approved

51decided in the last year

Plota live figures for changes of use decided by Sevenoaks in the last twelve months, from validation. Sevenoaks decision record →

Consultation & key dates

Planning Portal ref: PP-15156312
Statutory expiry: 28 Oct 2026
Env. assessment: No

Sevenoaks

Planning Authority Score

5.6/10

Average

#115 of 296 councils

Relevant to this application:

Change of use

Sevenoaks ranks #109 out of 296 councils for householder decision speed. Householder applications are slightly more likely to be approved here (90%) than the national average (90%).

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

Sevenoaks decision statistics

Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026

87%

Overall approval rate

Above avg (87%) #177 of 296

90%

Householder approved

Above avg (90%) #194 of 296

72%

Decided in 8 weeks

Above avg (63%) #109 of 296

34%

Extended time limit

Below avg (41%) #93 of 296

85%

Minor dwellings approved

213 decided (1-9 homes)

100%

Major dwellings approved

7 decided (10+ homes)

71%

Change of use approved

14 decided

1,130

Total decisions

143 refused in the year to March 2026