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

OTH/2025/1922 - Non-Material Amendment Approved

Proposal

Non-Material Amendment to Planning Permission PA/2025/1208 for Variation of Conditions to (The erection of a Class E retail unit alongside access, car parking , landscaping and associated works); to allow changes to Condition 16 (Installation of SCOOT System) for alignment of the wording of the condition with the submitted technical note and KCC Highways advice. Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

✓
Received
15 Oct 2025
✓
Approved
around 29 Oct 2025

Approved around 29 Oct 2025 · Delegated Decision · Last checked 9 Oct 2026

Associated applications 12

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.
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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 9 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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Important details

Council
Ashford
Application type
Non-Material Amendment
Postcode
TN24 8QQ
Received
15 Oct 2025
Validated
15 Oct 2025
Ward
Kennington
Parish
Kennington
Case officer
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Target decision
12 Nov 2025
Decision
Approve
Decision date
around 29 Oct 2025
Decision level
Delegated Decision
Applicant
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Public comments

1comment received
1 supporting

Last counted 9 Oct 2026

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Consultation & key dates

Comments by
29 Oct 2025
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