Former Houchin Playing Fields, Canterbury Road, Kennington, TN24 8QQ Data via plota.co.uk

PA/2025/1208 - Removal/variation of conditions Approved

Proposal

Variation of conditions 2 (Approved Plans and Documents) and 17 (Highway Safety). Removal of condition 18 (Highway Mitigation Scheme) of planning permission for "The erection of a Class E retail unit alongside access, car parking, landscaping and associated works" to allow amendments to the wording of condition 2 to reference the updated plans, amend the wording of condition 17 and to remove condition 18 Data via plota.co.uk

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View original council record ↗Last checked 15 Oct 2026, 21:26

Application progress

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Received

27 Jun 2025

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Validated

18 Jul 2025

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Approved

around 15 Sept 2025

Approved around 15 Sept 2025 · Delegated Decision · Last checked 15 Oct 2026

Documents 27

Associated applications 12

Part of

FullApproved3 May 2024council archive

Conditions 5, 18 discharged · 2, 17 varied
- VariationVariation of conditions 2 (Approved Plans and Documents) and 17 (Highway Safety). Removal…This application18 Jul 2025PA/2025/1208
  Conditions 3, 4, 16, 22 discharged
  - AmendmentNon-material amendment for The erection of a Class E retail unit alongside access, car…24 Jul 2026OTH/2026/1322
  - ConditionsDetails submitted pursuant to Condition 16 (SCOOT System)16 Jul 2026OTH/2026/1264
  - ConditionsDetails submitted pursuant to condition 4 (green roof)24 Apr 2026OTH/2026/0763
  - Show 3 earlier · 3 approved
    - ConditionsDetails submitted pursuant to Condition 3 (Materials)21 Apr 2026OTH/2026/0730
    - ConditionsDetails submitted pursuant to condition 22 (Reptile Mitigation strategy - Translocated Report)21 Nov 2025OTH/2025/2167
    - AmendmentNon-Material Amendment for Variation of Conditions to (The erection of a Class E retail unit…15 Oct 2025OTH/2025/1922
- Show 4 more · 3 approved, 1 withdrawn
  - AmendmentNon-material amendment /26 Aug 2026OTH/2026/1547
  - ConditionsDetails submitted pursuant to Condition 5 (Remediation Scheme)16 Jul 2026OTH/2026/1267
  - ConditionsDetails submitted pursuant to Condition 18 (Highway Mitigation Scheme)16 Jul 2026OTH/2026/1269
  - AmendmentNon-Material Amendment /Withdrawn22 Apr 2025OTH/2025/0770

Site constraints 7

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 ↗

Nutrient neutrality catchment: Stodmarsh SAC/SPA/Ramsar

New homes and overnight accommodation must show nutrient neutrality before approval.

Natural England advice: extra wastewater in these catchments harms protected habitats, so schemes must offset their nutrient load, usually through credits.

5 listed buildings within 150 m of the postcode pin

Nearest: Bybrook Tavern, Grade II, about 7 m from the postcode pin · 5 Grade II

The site itself is not listed. Listed building consent is needed for work that affects the special interest of a listed building, inside or out, on top of planning permission. Setting can be a consideration for buildings nearby; there is no fixed radius.

Show all 5 with distances

7 mBybrook TavernGrade II
15 mFormer barn to west of Bybrook TavernGrade II
62 mFormer row of outhouses to south east of BybrookGrade II
82 mFormer barn to south west of BybrookGrade II
96 mBybrookGrade II

Historic England ↗

Local nature reserve about 235 m away: Ashford Green Corridors

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.

Also on the record

Radon affected area, class 4; Inside the Ashford (Ashford) built-up area; Natural England's Provisional ALC map (1:250,000, 1970s) had this area as grade 3, but it predates the buildings here and the current map does not class it as farmland.

Not affected

Not green belt · No scheduled monument at the site

Checked on 15 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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