All 32 applications validated in Sevenoaks district to 18 September: a Four Elms barn-to-home bid, a home at a Swanley nursery, Wagamama's delivery hatch.

Sevenoaks District Council validated 32 planning applications in the week beginning 14 September (Sevenoaks District Council, weekly planning list, Public Access). Most are tree works and condition paperwork. Four are worth a closer look.

The ones to know about

  • A barn-to-home conversion at Four Elms. The owners of Owls Court Farm on Five Fields Lane have applied under Class Q permitted development rights to change an agricultural building to residential use (26/02363/PAC). Class Q bids are decided on prior approval, not a full planning balance.
  • One home at a Swanley nursery. A permission-in-principle application seeks a single dwelling at Robertsons Nursery, Goldsel Road (26/02426/PIP).
  • Wagamama wants a delivery hatch. The chain’s Sevenoaks restaurant at 138A-138B High Street has applied to install a sliding delivery hatch (26/02169/FUL).
  • Protected open space to a driveway at Hartley. At 19 Springcroft, an application would change a section of protected amenity open space to residential curtilage with an extended block-paved drive and a new parking space (26/02342/FUL).
Bar chart of the 32 applications validated in the week beginning 14 September 2026 by type: 11 tree works, 8 condition details, 3 householder and extensions, 3 full applications, 2 new-homes applications, 2 non-material amendments, 2 listed building consents and 1 agricultural building notice
Chart by Sevenoaks Online

The full list, by parish

Sevenoaks town

  • Wagamama, 138A-138B High Street: delivery sliding hatch (26/02169/FUL)
  • 123 Bradbourne Vale Road: prior notification of a 3.9m single-storey rear extension (26/02447/PAE)
  • 222 Seal Road: non-material amendment to an approved householder scheme (26/02497/NMA)
  • Bradbourne Lakes: scaled drawings and materials for the model boat launching deck, a condition of the restoration consent (26/02387/DETAIL)
  • Tree works at The Gybe Mark, Little Julians Hill; 33 Vine Court Road; 18 The Drive; and 22 St Botolphs Road

Swanley

  • Robertsons Nursery, Goldsel Road: permission in principle for one dwelling (26/02426/PIP)
  • East Broom Hill site, London Road: new external storage unit (26/02265/FUL)
  • 12 Almond Drive: lawful development certificate for a rear dormer and rooflights (26/02295/LDCPR)

Hartley

  • 19 Springcroft: change of use of protected amenity open space to curtilage and driveway (26/02342/FUL)
  • Rose Cottage Cattery, Castle Hill: five condition-details applications under last year’s consent, covering lighting, parking, ecology, electric vehicle charging and landscaping (26/02302 to 26/02306/DETAIL)

Villages west and south

  • Owls Court Farm, Five Fields Lane, Four Elms: Class Q barn-to-home conversion (26/02363/PAC)
  • Morants Court Farm, Dunton Green: agricultural building notification for a steel portal-framed barn (26/02498/AGRNOT)
  • Walnut Tree Cottage, 38 London Road, Farningham: garage extension and conversion to an annexe (26/02343/HOUSE), plus willow pollarding at Farningham Mill
  • The Old School House, Glebe Road, Sevenoaks Weald: listed building consent for a replacement outbuilding (26/02331/LBCALT), plus oak works at Phoenix Cottage
  • Old Swaylands, Poundsbridge, Penshurst: listed building consent for breathable flooring (26/02339/LBCALT), plus an ash felling at Mitre Oast, Fordcombe

Villages north and east

  • 7 Castle Farm Cottages, Redmans Lane, Shoreham: two condition-details applications on a householder consent (26/02366 and 26/02388/DETAIL)
  • 3 Treetops, Kemsing: sycamore removal (26/02448/WTPO)
  • Chipstead: an acer removal at West Lodge, 60 High Street, and poplar re-pollarding by the Bricklayers Arms
  • Land next to 12 Sealcroft Cottages, Childsbridge Lane, Seal: non-material amendment to an approved scheme, decided by officers without consultation (26/02494/NMA)
  • 43 High Street, Seal: conifer trimming (26/02464/WTCA)

Licensing: four village venues in consultation

The council’s licensing register also shows four open or just-closed premises licence applications (Sevenoaks District Council, premises licence tracker):

  • Grasshopper On The Green, Westerham: new premises licence, public notice period runs to 30 September (26/04023/LAPRE)
  • The Rising Sun, in the Otford and Shoreham ward: new premises licence, notice period runs to 2 October (26/03921/LAPRE)
  • White Horse Inn, in the Brasted, Chevening and Sundridge ward: notice period closes on 22 September (26/03652/LAPRE)
  • Casa Vostra, Edenbridge: notice period closed on 21 September (26/03699/LAPRE)

A fifth, for the Thai Emperor in Swanley, was received on 21 September and does not yet have a notice window (26/04093/LAPRE). The register does not publish what each application seeks, and no representations were recorded against any of them as of 21 September. Representations on a premises licence can be made to the district council’s licensing team while the notice period is open.

How to comment on any of these

Every planning application above is open to public view, and most accept comments for 21 days from validation. Search the reference on the council’s Public Access portal, or read our plain-English walkthrough: the Sevenoaks planning portal and how to object.

Sources

Image: Sevenoaks High Street, view north from opposite the church, by Stefan Czapski, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Geograph. The photo shows the street, not any application site. Chart by Sevenoaks Online.