Land South Of Polhill Garden Centre London Road Badgers Mount Halstead Kent TN14 7AD Data via plota.co.uk

26/02239/DETAIL - Approval of Details Awaiting decision

Proposal

Details pursuant to condition 23 (storage and waste collection) of Data via plota.co.uk

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Received

18 Aug 2026

Decision

Expected by 13 Oct 2026

This application is under consideration - no decision has been issued yet. A decision is expected by 13 Oct 2026.

Documents 3

Associated applications 6

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FullApproved6 Aug 2025council archive

Conditions 17, 18, 20 discharged · 19, 23 awaiting decision
- ConditionsDetails pursuant to condition 23 (storage and waste collection)This application18 Aug 202626/02239/DETAIL
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  - ConditionsDetails pursuant to condition 17 (verification report)18 Aug 202626/02214/DETAIL
  - ConditionsDetails pursuant to condition 18 (remediation strategy)18 Aug 202626/02236/DETAIL
  - ConditionsDetails pursuant to condition 19 (verification report pertaining to surface water drainage…18 Aug 202626/02237/DETAIL
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    ConditionsDetails pursuant to condition 20 (surface water drainage)18 Aug 202626/02238/DETAIL

Site constraints 4

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.

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 2

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 3. 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 2

Where habitat is joined up enough to work as a network. Context, not a constraint on its own.

Not affected

Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · 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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