Heronden Old House, Smallhythe Road, Tenterden, TN30 7LR Data via plota.co.uk

PA/2026/1662 - Lawful development Valid

Proposal

Lawful Development Certificate - Proposed side porch. Data via plota.co.uk

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View original council record ↗Last checked 3 Oct 2026, 08:19

Application progress

✓

Received

15 Sept 2026

Decision

Expected by 10 Nov 2026

This application is under consideration - no decision has been issued yet. Plota predicts a decision around 5 Nov 2026, from recent lawful development certificates across the UK.

Documents 7

Site constraints 5

High Weald 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.

Public restricted byway about 19 m away

Matters where it crosses or adjoins the site: obstructing a path without a diversion order is an offence, and work cannot start until the order is confirmed.

Compiled from highway authority data, not the legal definitive map. A few authorities have not published, so no path shown is not proof there is none.

Agricultural land, grade 3a

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) 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.

Habitat network: Network Enhancement Zone 2

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

1 listed building within 150 m of the postcode pin

Nearest: Dutch Cottage (in Grounds of Morghew), Grade II, about 43 m from the postcode pin

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.

Historic England ↗

Not affected

Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · Not green belt · No scheduled monument at the site

Checked on 22 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: Ashford
Application type: Lawful development
Postcode: TN30 7LR
Received: 15 Sept 2026
Validated: 15 Sept 2026
Ward: Rolvenden & Tenterden West
Parish: Tenterden
Case officer: Show
Target decision: 10 Nov 2026
Decision level: Delegated Decision
Applicant: Show
Agent: Price Whitehead

Decision outlook

Day 20 of the 56-day target. Councils usually decide lawful development certificates by day 51.

prediction

Day 2036 days to the 56-day target

82%decided within 8 weeks

84%approved

30,231decided in the last year

Plota live figures for lawful development certificates decided across the UK in the last twelve months, from validation; too few recent lawful development certificates in Ashford to go on. Ashford decision record →

Public comments

No public comments yet.

Last counted 29 Sept 2026

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Historical activity at this location

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

Within ~100m

Nearby activity

2017 Approved

Heronden New House, Smallhythe Road, Tenterden, Kent, TN30 7LR

Discharge of condition 3

13/01264/CONA/AS 25 May 2017

Ashford

Planning Authority Score

5.9/10

Average

#105 of 296 councils

Relevant to this application:

Householder 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

Heronden Old House, Smallhythe Road, Tenterden, TN30 7LR Data via plota.co.uk

Proposal

Application progress

Documents 7

Statements & assessments 1

Plans & drawings 4

Application forms 1

Other documents 1

Site constraints 5

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