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26/01619/NMA - Non Material Amendment Approved

Proposal

Non-Material Amendment to planning permission Erection of a modular building comprising 12no. self-contained apartments for use as temporary housing accommodation, including associated landscaping, refuse / cycle store, parking and office. To alter approved plans and documents referenced within Condition 2 and amend the wording of conditions 5 and 7 to reflect the updated drawings to incorporate a substation within the main boundary, loss of one dedicated staff car parking, re-configuration of parking bays and amenity space access on the Western parking bay row Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

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Received

2 Sept 2026

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Approved

30 Sept 2026

Approved on 30 Sept 2026 · Delegated Decision · Last checked 30 Sept 2026

Documents 16

Decision & officer reports 1

PDF Decision Decision · 30 Sept 2026 View ↗

Statements & assessments 1

PDF 2 SEP 26 FLOOD RISK STATEMENT Report · 2 Sept 2026 View ↗

Plans & drawings 12

Application forms 1

PDF APPLICATIONFORMREDACTED Application Form · 2 Sept 2026 View ↗

Site constraints 4

Kent Downs National Landscape

Great weight to conserving the landscape; major development restricted.

Previously an area of outstanding natural beauty, which is still the designation in law. Since 2023 authorities must seek to further its purpose, not merely have regard to it.

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. A site survey can differ.

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 2

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 4.

Not affected

Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · Not green belt · No listed building at the site

Checked on 6 October 2026. 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: Tonbridge
Application type: Non Material Amendment
Received: 2 Sept 2026
Validated: 2 Sept 2026
Ward: Aylesford North And North Downs
Parish: Aylesford
Case officer: Show
Target decision: 30 Sept 2026
Decision: Approved
Decision date: 30 Sept 2026
Decision level: Delegated Decision
Applicant: Show
Agent: ZED PODs Ltd

Public comments

No public comments yet.

Last counted 30 Sept 2026

Read the comments on the council site ↗

Consultation & key dates

Alt. reference: PP-15029859
Planning Portal ref: PP-15029859
Statutory expiry: 30 Sept 2026
Env. assessment: No

Tonbridge

Planning Authority Score

4/10

Below average

#193 of 296 councils

Relevant to this application:

Householder decisions

Tonbridge is slower than most councils at deciding householder applications, ranking #244 out of 296. 54% of applications have the time limit extended, above the 41% national average. Householder applications are slightly more likely to be approved here (97%) than the national average (90%).

Slower than most councils

for householder decisions

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

Tonbridge decision statistics

Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026

95%

Overall approval rate

Above avg (87%) #31 of 296

97%

Householder approved

Above avg (90%) #45 of 296

49%

Decided in 8 weeks

Below avg (63%) #244 of 296

54%

Extended time limit

Above avg (41%) #246 of 296

88%

Minor dwellings approved

96 decided (1-9 homes)

82%

Major dwellings approved

11 decided (10+ homes)

89%

Change of use approved

9 decided

880

Total decisions

47 refused in the year to March 2026