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26/01490/EASC - EIA screening request Decided

Proposal

Request for Screening Opinion under Town and Country Planning (Environmental Impact Assessment) Regulations 2017 in relation to planning application 26/01349/FL: Erection of a Warehouse Club (Sui Generis) including, tyre installation and sales, a petrol filling station, car parking, accesses, landscaping, engineering and associated works Data via plota.co.uk

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View original council record ↗Last checked 3 Oct 2026, 04:59

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Application progress

✓

Received

22 Jul 2026

✓

screening opinion EIA not required

21 Aug 2026

screening opinion EIA not required on 21 Aug 2026 · Delegated Decision · Last checked 24 Sept 2026

Documents 6

Site constraints 1

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 2. 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

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

Checked on 24 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: Tonbridge
Application type: EIA screening request
Received: 22 Jul 2026
Validated: 22 Jul 2026
Ward: Aylesford South And Ditton
Parish: Aylesford
Case officer: Show
Target decision: 12 Aug 2026
Decision: screening opinion EIA not required
Decision date: 21 Aug 2026
Decision level: Delegated Decision
Applicant: Show
Agent: Firstplan Ltd

Public comments

2comments received

1 objecting1 supporting

Last counted 24 Sept 2026

Read the comments on the council site ↗

Consultation & key dates

Statutory expiry: 12 Aug 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