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26/01701/DETAIL - Approval of Details Approved

Proposal

Details pursuant to condition 6 (Ecological Mitigation Strategy) of . Data via plota.co.uk

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View original council record ↗Last checked 13 Sept 2026, 04:33

Application progress

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Received

22 Jun 2026

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Validated

14 Jul 2026

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Approved

7 Sept 2026

Approved on 7 Sept 2026 · Delegated Decision · Last checked 8 Sept 2026

Documents 4

Associated applications 12

Part of

FullApproved23 Jan 2026council archive

Conditions 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 11, 12, 13, 15 discharged · 7 awaiting decision
- ConditionsDetails pursuant to condition 6 (Ecological Mitigation Strategy).This application14 Jul 202626/01701/DETAIL
- Show 10 more · 9 approved, 1 pending
  - ConditionsDetails pursuant to condition 7 (biodiversity gain plan).4 Aug 202626/01702/DETAIL
  - ConditionsDetails pursuant to condition 11 (Hard surface materials and boundary fencing).14 Jul 202626/01708/DETAIL
  - ConditionsDetails pursuant to condition 12 (Electrical Charging points).14 Jul 202626/01706/DETAIL
  - Show 7 earlier · 7 approved
    ConditionsDetails pursuant to condition 9 (Noise impact assessment).14 Jul 202626/01705/DETAIL
    ConditionsDetails pursuant to condition 8 (Part-discharge: Intrusive Site investigation and Remediation…14 Jul 202626/01703/DETAIL
    ConditionsDetails pursuant to condition 5 (Tree protection measures).14 Jul 202626/01700/DETAIL
    ConditionsDetails pursuant to condition 4 (Demolition and Construction Environmental Management plan).14 Jul 202626/01699/DETAIL
    ConditionsDetails pursuant to condition 15 (External lighting).14 Jul 202626/01710/DETAIL
    ConditionsDetails pursuant to condition 3 (External materials).14 Jul 202626/01594/DETAIL
    ConditionsDetails pursuant to condition 13 (Ecological enhancements).14 Jul 202626/01709/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 3b

Not best and most versatile land (grades 1, 2 and 3a). Predicted from the national soil map. The older provisional map agrees.

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.

Also on the record

SSSI 476 m away: Westerham Wood SSSI.

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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