Three Oaks Harvel Road Meopham Gravesend Kent DA13 0RN Data via plota.co.uk

20260938 - Householder Planning Application Pending Consideration

Proposal

Conversion of integral garage into living accommodation. Data via plota.co.uk

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View original council record ↗Last checked 7 Oct 2026, 13:35

Application progress

✓

Received

21 Sept 2026

✓

Consultation

23 Sept 2026

Decision

Expected by 16 Nov 2026

Under consideration

No decision has been issued yet. Plota predicts a decision around 11 Nov 2026, from Gravesham's recent extensions.

Comments are open until 14 Oct 2026

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Documents

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Site constraints 8

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. 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.

National nature reserve about 271 m away: North Kent Woods and Downs

Work nearby can need a habitats assessment.

Harm to a protected site is only accepted where there is no alternative and an overriding public interest.

National landscape about 81 m away: Kent Downs

Outside the landscape; its setting can still be raised.

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.

Also on the record

Radon affected area, class 2; SSSI about 450 m away: Halling to Trottiscliffe Escarpment SSSI; Priority habitat about 39 m away: Deciduous woodland.

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 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: Gravesham
Application type: Householder Planning Application
Postcode: DA13 0RN
Received: 21 Sept 2026
Validated: 21 Sept 2026
Ward: Meopham South And Vigo
Parish: Meopham
Case officer: Show
Target decision: 16 Nov 2026
Applicant: Show

Decision outlook

Day 18 of the 56-day target. Gravesham usually decides extensions by day 51.

prediction

Day 1838 days to the 56-day target

82%decided within 8 weeks

76%approved

392decided in the last year

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

Public comments

No public comments yet.

4 neighbours consulted · Last counted 7 Oct 2026

Read the comments on the council site ↗

Consultation & key dates

Alt. reference: PP-15227574
Planning Portal ref: PP-15227574
Neighbours: 23 Sept 2026
Consultation: 23 Sept 2026
Comments by: 14 Oct 2026
Statutory expiry: 16 Nov 2026
Env. assessment: No

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