DSTL Fort Halstead Crow Drive, Halstead Data via plota.co.uk

26/03018/ADJ - Adjoining Authority Consultation Valid
New homes

Proposal

Reserved matters application (details relating to appearance, landscaping, layout and scale) pursuant to condition 5 of hybrid planning permission for 93 residential dwellings, car parking, cycle parking and associated infrastructure including landscaping. The hybrid application was subject to Environmental Impact Assessment and an Environmental Statement has been approved. (CONSULTATION BY SEVENOAKS DISTRICT COUNCIL) Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

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Received
21 Jul 2026
Decision
Expected by 11 Aug 2026

This application is under consideration - no decision has been issued yet. Plota predicted a decision soon after comments close on 28 Sept 2026; it is now day 75. The consultation period closed on 28 Sept 2026.

Documents 4

Consultation & comments 4

PDF Re-consultation letter Supporting Document · 13 Aug 2026 View ↗ PDF Re-consultation letter Supporting Document · 10 Aug 2026 View ↗ PDF Re-consultation letter Supporting Document · 6 Aug 2026 View ↗ PDF Consultation Letter Supporting Document · 21 Jul 2026 View ↗

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Site constraints 6

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.
Ancient woodland about 11 m away
Inside the 15 m buffer standing advice asks for from the boundary.
National policy refuses development that would cause loss or deterioration of ancient woodland or ancient trees unless there are wholly exceptional reasons.
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: Ancient Semi Natural Woodland
Where habitat is joined up enough to work as a network. Context, not a constraint on its own.
Also on the record
Priority habitat about 3 m away: Deciduous woodland.
Not affected
Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · No scheduled monument at the site

Checked on 11 September 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 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
Bromley
Application type
Adjoining Authority Consultation
Received
21 Jul 2026
Validated
21 Jul 2026
Case officer
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Target decision
11 Aug 2026
Decision level
Delegated Decision
Applicant
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Decision outlook

Day 75, past Bromley's usual 56 days for new homes. 79% are decided within thirteen weeks, so most likely by 20 Oct 2026.

Day 7516 days to the 91-day target
59%decided within 8 weeks
49%approved
115decided in the last year

Plota live figures for new homes decided by Bromley in the last twelve months, from validation. Bromley decision record →

Public comments

No public comments yet.

Last counted 13 Sept 2026

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Consultation & key dates

Comments by
28 Sept 2026

Historical activity at this location

4 nearby applications on record - archival context, not part of the live application.

Within ~100m

Nearby activity

2025
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25/01285/REM
2025
DSTL Fort Halstead Crow Drive Halstead Sevenoaks Kent TN14 7BU
Reserved matters application (details relating to appearance, landscaping, layout and sca…
25/01285/REM
2019 Refused
Crow Drive Halstead KENT
Works to trees (TPO).
19/00204/WTPO
2019 Refused
Crow Drive Halstead KENT
Works to trees (TPO).
19/00204/WTPO
Bromley
Planning Authority Score
4.4/10
Below average
#178 of 296 councils
Relevant to this application:
Householder decisions

Bromley ranks #143 out of 296 councils for householder decision speed. Bromley is also one of the strictest councils - it refuses more householder applications than almost any other, with only 79% approved vs 90% nationally.

One of the strictest councils
only 79% approved vs 90% nationally
These figures are council-wide context, not a prediction for this application. View full council performance
Bromley decision statistics
Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026
77%
Overall approval rate
Below avg (87%) #276 of 296
79%
Householder approved
Below avg (90%) #280 of 296
66%
Decided in 8 weeks
Above avg (63%) #143 of 296
33%
Extended time limit
Below avg (41%) #72 of 296
63%
Minor dwellings approved
70 decided (1-9 homes)
88%
Major dwellings approved
8 decided (10+ homes)
50%
Change of use approved
42 decided
2,164
Total decisions
500 refused in the year to March 2026
Source: MHCLG planning statistics · See full council rankings