All 32 applications validated in Sevenoaks district to 25 September: a 6am start at the St John's Hill filling station, nine homes at Kemsing, a Knockholt unit.

Sevenoaks District Council validated 32 planning applications in the week beginning 21 September. (Sevenoaks District Council, weekly planning list, Public Access) Twelve are tree works and ten are household extensions. Four are worth a closer look.

The ones to know about

  • A 6am start at the St John’s Hill filling station. Motor Fuel Group wants to open the forecourt at 67-73 St John’s Hill from 6am to 11pm every day. Its planning statement says a 1994 condition sets the opening time at 7am. The council’s environmental health officer says the change is an hour earlier from Monday to Saturday, and on Sundays half an hour earlier and an hour later. The officer does not object, but wants the noise measures made a condition: no Tannoy, no fuel deliveries, no tyre pump and no electric vehicle charging in the extra hour. The officer also suggests a ban on parking next to 65 St John’s Hill before 7am. Consultation runs to 15 October (26/02465/CONVAR).
  • Up to nine more homes at Kemsing. A second permission-in-principle bid has gone in for Green Belt farmland off Childsbridge Lane, next to the plot approved for up to seven homes on 4 September. We have covered it in full: nine more homes sought beside the Childsbridge site (26/02521/PIP).
  • A storage unit to a workshop at Knockholt. Erinvale Properties Ltd has applied to re-roof and re-clad a commercial unit at Hill Top Meadows, Old London Road, raising the eaves and ridge. The use would change from storage to light industrial (26/01385/FUL).
  • Is a Knockholt annexe a home in its own right? A lawful development certificate is sought to confirm that converted accommodation at Hamlyn House, Pound Lane, known as Flat 2, is already in lawful use as a separate dwelling (26/02258/LDCEX).
Bar chart of the 32 planning applications validated in Sevenoaks district in the week beginning 21 September 2026 by type: 12 tree works, 10 householder, 2 non-material amendments, 3 about conditions, 2 lawful development certificates and 3 others
Chart by Sevenoaks Online
Share this chartFacebookWhatsAppX

The three about conditions are two sets of details required by earlier permissions and the filling station’s bid to change its hours. The three others are the Kemsing homes, the Knockholt workshop and a larger home extension notice at Swanley.

The full list, by parish

Sevenoaks town and Chipstead

  • 67-73 St John’s Hill: filling station opening hours, 6am to 11pm daily (26/02465/CONVAR)
  • Trelissick House, 140 London Road: garden studio (26/02347/HOUSE)
  • Birchcroft, 6 Chipstead Park Close: brick wall and fence around the boundary (26/02118/HOUSE)
  • 22 Vine Court Road: tree works (26/02518/WTCA)

Kemsing

  • Land north west of Childsbridge House, Childsbridge Lane: permission in principle for one to nine homes (26/02521/PIP)
  • Ravenswood, 137 Pilgrims Way: single-storey and two-storey rear extensions (26/02308/HOUSE)
  • 69 Castle Drive: certificate for a hip-to-gable loft conversion with rear dormer (26/02456/LDCPR)

Knockholt and Halstead

  • Hill Top Meadows, Old London Road: re-roofing, re-cladding and change of use to light industrial (26/01385/FUL)
  • Annexe 2, Hamlyn House, Pound Lane: certificate for existing use as a separate dwelling (26/02258/LDCEX)
  • Grove End, Harrow Road: outbuilding converted and extended as ancillary accommodation “for elderly occupation” (26/02206/HOUSE)
  • The Beeches, Pound Lane: works to two beech trees (26/02532/WTPO)
  • Fort Halstead: surface water drainage details under the site’s 2019 hybrid permission (26/02358/DETAIL)

Westerham, Brasted and Edenbridge

  • Windy Corner, 132 London Road, Westerham: single-storey rear extension (26/02111/HOUSE)
  • St Mary the Virgin church, The Green, Westerham: removal of a large wind-damaged limb from a weeping willow (26/02529/W5DAY)
  • Saltwood Lodge, Chart Lane, Brasted: rear extension, part single and part two storey, and removal of a pond (26/02375/HOUSE)
  • Land north of Town Station Cottages, Forge Croft, Edenbridge: recreation and open space strategy required by the 2020 outline permission (26/02038/DETAIL)

Swanley, Hextable and Hartley

  • 14 Cedar Close, Swanley: prior notification of an 8m single-storey rear extension (26/02504/PAE)
  • 5 The Beeches, Hextable: extension to the rear of a garage, with decking (26/02285/HOUSE)
  • The Seasons, Gorse Way, Hartley: first-floor side extension and two-storey front entrance (26/02443/HOUSE)
  • Chatenay, Manor Drive, Hartley: beech cut back to the boundary (26/02548/WTPO)

West Kingsdown and Knatts Valley

  • The Gamecock, London Road: non-material amendment to last year’s permission 25/03594/FUL (26/02552/NMA)
  • Keston, East Hill Road, Knatts Valley: non-material amendment to a householder consent (26/02476/NMA)
  • 24 and 44 Millfield Road: three applications to reduce protected oaks (26/02514, 26/02515 and 26/02516/WTPO)
  • Cricketts, Shorehill Lane, Knatts Valley: tree works (26/02531/WTPO)

Villages north

  • Holly Place, 20 High Street, Shoreham: tree works (26/02519/WTCA)
  • Three Ways, Dartford Road, Horton Kirby: beech crown reduction (26/02527/WTPO)
  • Giffords, Holmesdale Road, South Darenth: felling of a red beech (26/02545/W5DAY)

Villages south

  • The Old School House, 25 Glebe Road, Sevenoaks Weald: annexe demolished and replaced with an outbuilding holding an annexe, store and workshop (26/02330/HOUSE)
  • Old Waterworks Cottage, Coldharbour Road, Penshurst: two-bay oak-framed garage (26/02009/HOUSE)
  • 2 The Green, Fordcombe: works to a maple and a willow (26/02528/WTCA)

Licensing: six applications open to comment

The council’s licensing register shows six premises applications in their public notice period. (Sevenoaks District Council, premises licence tracker)

Premises Type Notice ends Representations so far
Grasshopper On The Green, Westerham New licence (26/04023/LAPRE) 30 September 0
Westerham Mens Club Review (26/03726/REVIEW) 1 October 1
The Rising Sun, Otford and Shoreham ward New licence (26/03921/LAPRE) 2 October 0
The Rising Sun, Otford and Shoreham ward Review (26/03858/REVIEW) 6 October 5
Londis, Dunton Green and Riverhead ward New licence (26/04062/LAPRE) 7 October 0
Thai Emperor, Swanley New licence (26/04093/LAPRE) 20 October 0

The figures are from the register as extracted on 28 September. It does not publish what each application seeks or who asked for a review. None of the six is the subject of the next Licensing Hearing, on 8 October at 10.30am. That hearing will decide a bid by Swanley Service Station, London Road, to sell alcohol 24 hours a day and serve hot food and drink from 11pm to 5am. It is licensed from 6am to 11pm now. Six representations were made against it. Kent Police and environmental health did not object. (Sevenoaks District Council, Licensing Hearing report, 8 October 2026)

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 walkthrough: the Sevenoaks planning portal and how to object.

Last week’s list is here: barn home bid among 32 new applications.

Sources

Image: A225 St John’s Hill, Sevenoaks, 2011 by Robin Webster, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Geograph. The photo is 15 years old. Chart by Sevenoaks Online.