Elephant House, School Hill, Chilham, CT4 8DE Data via plota.co.uk

PA/2026/1392 - Listed building consent (Alt/Ext) Under Consultation
Listed buildings

Proposal

Listed Building Consent for the removal and replacement of a sash window to the living room on rear elevation with a new pre-finished timber casement window to match the existing and for the raking-out of failed low-level mortar joints on front elevation and repointing using a lime mortar mix. Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

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Received
3 Aug 2026
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Validated
25 Aug 2026
Decision
Expected by 20 Oct 2026

This application is under consideration - no decision has been issued yet. Plota predicts a decision around 8 Dec 2026, from Ashford's recent listed building consent. The consultation period closed on 24 Sept 2026.

Documents 11

Statements & assessments 1

PDF Heritage Statement Supporting Documents · 13 Aug 2026 View ↗

Plans & drawings 4

PDF Elevation (Rear) - Existing Photographs and Photomontages · 25 Aug 2026 View ↗ PDF Elevation (Front) - Existing Photographs and Photomontages · 25 Aug 2026 View ↗ PDF Picture of the house - Rear elevation Photographs and Photomontages · 13 Aug 2026 View ↗ PDF Location Plan Plan · 13 Aug 2026 View ↗

Application forms 1

PDF Application Form Application Form · 25 Aug 2026 View ↗

Other documents 5

PDF Press Notification Other · 4 Sept 2026 View ↗ PDF Picture of Vent and Wall Photographs and Photomontages · 13 Aug 2026 View ↗ PDF Picture of door Photographs and Photomontages · 13 Aug 2026 View ↗ PDF Picture of Window Photographs and Photomontages · 13 Aug 2026 View ↗ PDF Remedial Works Supporting Documents · 3 Aug 2026 View ↗

All documents on the council site ↗

Site constraints 11

38 listed buildings within 150 m of the postcode pin
Nearest: St Mary's Church of England Primary School and Wall to North, Grade II, about 3 m from the postcode pin · 1 Grade I, 37 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 38 with distances
Historic England ↗
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.
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.
Chilham conservation area
Demolition needs planning permission and permitted development is restricted.
The council must give weight to preserving or enhancing the area's character and appearance. Not every council has published its boundaries as open data.
Council document ↗
North Downs Way about 15 m away
Matters where it crosses or adjoins the site; the route and its margin are protected.
Registered park or garden about 24 m away: Chilham Castle
Its setting is a consideration for work nearby.
Registered parks and gardens, battlefields, world heritage sites and protected wrecks are designated heritage assets: harm needs clear and convincing justification.
Historic England ↗
Habitat network: Wood pasture and parkland
Where habitat is joined up enough to work as a network. Context, not a constraint on its own.
Also on the record
Scheduled monument about 213 m away: Tower keep castle at Chilham; Tree preservation order about 17 m away: TPO/74/00001; Inside the Chilham built-up area; Natural England's Provisional ALC map (1:250,000, 1970s) had this area as grade 2, but it predates the buildings here and the current map does not class it as farmland.
Not affected
Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · Not green belt

Checked on 24 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.

Sales history 1

Last sold for £800,000 in July 2004. Detached house, freehold.

30 July 2004£800,000

Sale prices from HM Land Registry's price paid record, matched to this application by its address.

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Important details

Council
Ashford
Application type
Listed building consent (Alt/Ext)
Postcode
CT4 8DE
Received
3 Aug 2026
Validated
25 Aug 2026
Ward
Downs North
Parish
Chilham
Case officer
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Target decision
20 Oct 2026
Decision level
Delegated Decision
Applicant
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Agent
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Decision outlook

Day 40 of the 56-day target. Ashford usually decides listed building consent by day 105.

Day 4065 days to the predicted decision (day 105)
16%decided within 8 weeks
79%approved
86decided in the last year

Plota live figures for listed building consent decided by Ashford in the last twelve months, from validation. Ashford decision record →

Public comments

No public comments yet.

Last counted 1 Oct 2026

Read the comments on the council site ↗

Consultation & key dates

Comments by
24 Sept 2026

Historical activity at this location

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

Within ~100m

Nearby activity

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Ashford
Planning Authority Score
5.9/10
Average
#105 of 296 councils
Relevant to this application:
Other decisions

Ashford is faster than most councils at deciding householder applications, ranking #75 out of 296. Householder applications are slightly more likely to be approved here (92%) than the national average (90%).

Faster than most councils
for householder decisions
These figures are council-wide context, not a prediction for this application. View full council performance
Ashford decision statistics
Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026
88%
Overall approval rate
Above avg (87%) #147 of 296
92%
Householder approved
Above avg (90%) #146 of 296
75%
Decided in 8 weeks
Above avg (63%) #75 of 296
40%
Extended time limit
Below avg (41%) #146 of 296
71%
Minor dwellings approved
106 decided (1-9 homes)
89%
Major dwellings approved
18 decided (10+ homes)
90%
Change of use approved
40 decided
991
Total decisions
123 refused in the year to March 2026
Source: MHCLG planning statistics · See full council rankings

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