Halstead Parish Council has objected to six traveller pitches beside Knockholt station, a Bromley decision. Plus all 40 new Sevenoaks applications, by parish.

Halstead Parish Council has formally objected to six Gypsy and Traveller pitches on land beside Knockholt station. The land is just inside the London Borough of Bromley, so Bromley will decide the application. Sevenoaks District Council has been consulted as the neighbouring authority.

The consultation is one of 40 planning items Sevenoaks District Council validated in the week beginning 5 October. (Sevenoaks District Council, weekly planning list, Public Access) Ten are tree works and nine deal with conditions on earlier permissions.

The ones to know about

  • Six traveller pitches next to Knockholt station. The application is for land on the north side of the station, off Sevenoaks Road, Halstead. Each pitch would have a mobile home, a touring caravan and a dayroom, with hardstanding. Bromley’s reference is 26/03531/FPA. (26/02610/ADJ)
  • A new access track in a field at Knockholt. The owner of the field opposite Mountross Farm, Main Road, wants to change the existing highway access and build a track. The application does not say what the track is for. (26/02490/FUL)
  • New bridges for Bradbourne Lakes. The council has sent in drawings and materials for the new bridges in its restoration of the park, plus a landscape and ecology plan covering at least five years. The lakes closed for the works on 28 September. (26/02386/DETAIL, 26/02383/DETAIL) We covered the closure and what the restoration includes.
  • Odour and noise controls at the Fleur de Lis, Leigh. The pub company has sent the details a condition on its permission asked for. They cover odour and noise, and must show that carbon filtration will not harm the listed building. (26/02618/DETAIL) The pub applied for a premises licence in July.
  • Four new homes across the district. One-bedroom house in place of a garage at 55 College Road, Hextable. A single-storey house with a basement on land east of 1 Fullers Hill Farm, Seal. A two-storey house in place of a garage, car port and kennel at The Willows, Brasted Hill Road. Redundant farm buildings at Manor Farm, Dryhill Lane, Sundridge, turned into a self-build home.
Bar chart of the 40 planning applications validated in Sevenoaks district in the week beginning 5 October 2026 by type: 10 tree works, 9 details for conditions, 8 full applications, 6 householder, 2 listed building consent, 2 condition variations and 3 other
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Why Halstead objects to the Knockholt pitches

The parish council wrote to Bromley on 7 October and copied in Sevenoaks District Council. (Halstead Parish Council, letter to the London Borough of Bromley, 7 October 2026) It asks Bromley to refuse permission on seven grounds:

  • harm to the Green Belt and the open, rural edge between Bromley and Halstead
  • highway safety around the station, including visibility, turning and towing caravans
  • the site’s sustainability: being near a station “should not, in itself” count, given how often trains run
  • landscape and visual impact, judged across all six pitches together
  • drainage, utilities, waste collection, lighting and noise
  • the effect on Halstead residents across the boundary
  • the application being retrospective, which the parish says must not mean a lighter assessment

The parish council’s letter describes the application as retrospective. Bromley’s own description does not use that word. If officers are minded to approve, the parish asks for conditions limiting pitches, caravans, lighting and any further development.

Bromley emailed Sevenoaks on 2 October and asked for comments within 21 days. (London Borough of Bromley, consultation email, 2 October 2026) The Sevenoaks record gives 26 October as its own deadline to respond. Residents who want to comment should do so to Bromley, quoting 26/03531/FPA, through Bromley’s planning register or planning@bromley.gov.uk.

The district has its own traveller site cases running. The council’s planning committee meets on Thursday to decide three pitches at Troy Lane, Edenbridge.

The full list, by parish

Sevenoaks town and Riverhead

  • 34 Bayham Road: conservatory replaced, with a rooflight and a new front window (26/02561/HOUSE)
  • 44 Quakers Hall Lane: hip-to-gable roof extension, rear dormer, single-storey rear extension and enclosed porch (26/02563/HOUSE)
  • 79 Weald Road: access gate details for an earlier permission (26/02150/DETAIL)
  • Knole Field, Blackhall Lane: tree method statement for an earlier permission (26/02564/DETAIL)
  • Bradbourne Lakes North, Bradbourne Vale Road: bridge drawings and landscape plan (26/02386 and 26/02383/DETAIL)
  • 22 Shoreham Lane, Riverhead: landscaping details for a householder permission (26/02619/DETAIL)
  • 7 The Square, Riverhead: lime plaster, lime render and a limecrete floor in a listed building (26/02520/LBCALT)
  • Lyndhurst House, 20 Vine Court Road: tree works (26/02652/WTCA)
  • Kippington Lodge, 121 Kippington Road: yew and thuja reduced (26/02635/WTCA)
  • Westlands, 140A Kippington Road: tree works (26/02638/WTCA)
  • 20 Granville Road: tree works (26/02636/WTCA)
  • Rockdale House, Rockdale Road: dead sycamore cut to 4m and left for wildlife (26/02634/WTPO)

Seal and Kemsing

  • Land east of 1 Fullers Hill Farm, Fullers Hill, Seal: single-storey house with a basement (26/02397/FUL)
  • The Broom, The Brooms, Seal: changes to an approved pool house, including solar panels (26/02543/CONVAR)
  • Little Grove, 5 Jubilee Rise, Seal: beech taken down in sections (26/02631/WTCA)
  • 7 Springhead Road, Kemsing: non-material amendment to a householder permission (26/02671/NMA)

Halstead, Knockholt and Badgers Mount

  • Land by Knockholt station, Sevenoaks Road: Bromley consultation on six traveller pitches (26/02610/ADJ)
  • Field opposite Mountross Farm, Main Road, Knockholt: access changes and a track (26/02490/FUL)
  • Crittleshaw, Main Road, Knockholt: barn and conservatory demolished, extension, garage and gym outbuildings (26/02615/HOUSE)
  • Highwinds, Highland Road, Badgers Mount: oak crown reduced by 30% (26/02637/WTPO)

Westerham, Brasted and Sundridge

  • Land south of The Willows, Brasted Hill Road: two-storey house (26/02371/FUL)
  • Outridge Farm, Pipers Green Road, Brasted Chart: phased roof repairs to the piggery, with listed building consent (26/02474/FUL and 26/02475/LBCALT)
  • Byways, Scords Lane, Brasted: facing materials for a householder permission (26/02217/DETAIL)
  • Land north-east of Manor Farm, Dryhill Lane, Sundridge: farm buildings to a self-build home (26/01499/FUL)
  • Dryhill Lane, Sundridge: biodiversity gain plan for an earlier permission (26/02090/DETAIL)

Edenbridge, Leigh, Penshurst and Chiddingstone

  • 6 Delaware Cottages, Hever Road, Edenbridge: replacement single-storey rear extension (26/02455/HOUSE)
  • Oaklands, Four Elms Road, Edenbridge: lawful development certificate for a hip-to-gable roof and rear dormer (26/02558/LDCPR)
  • Chiddingstone Castle, Hill Hoath Road: revised method for repairing a plaster ceiling (26/02592/CONVAR)
  • Fleur de Lis, High Street, Leigh: odour and noise details (26/02618/DETAIL)
  • 5 Latymers, Penshurst: two oaks reduced by 30% (26/02640/WTPO)

Swanley, Hextable and the northern villages

  • 55 College Road, Hextable: one-bedroom house in place of a garage (26/02511/FUL)
  • The Village Bakery, 11 to 13 The Row, New Ash Green: new shopfront (26/02517/FUL)
  • Dittel House Farm, New Street Road, Hodsoll Street: quarantine area, stable block, tack and hay barn and storage barn for horses (26/02266/FUL)
  • Fairview, Bakers Avenue, West Kingsdown: first-floor extension (26/02554/HOUSE)
  • Robsacks Kennels, Shoreham Road, Eynsford: extensions and a new porch and chimney (26/02252/HOUSE)
  • Eynsford Village Hall, High Street: construction management plan for a 2019 permission (26/02427/DETAIL)
  • Giffords, Holmesdale Road, South Darenth: sycamore taken down (26/02659/WTCA)
  • 20 Hawthorn Park, Swanley: diseased beech to be felled and replaced with a hawthorn (26/02617/W5DAY)

Licensing: two notices still open

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

Premises Reference Notice ends Representations so far
Namaste Swanley! 26/04119/LAPRE 15 October 0
Thai Emperor, Swanley 26/04093/LAPRE 20 October 0

The figures are from the register as extracted on 12 October. The review of the Rising Sun, Otford, closed its notice period with nine representations. No hearing date is published yet.

How to comment

Most applications accept comments for 21 days from validation. Search the reference on the council’s Public Access portal, or read our guide to the Sevenoaks planning portal and how to object. The Knockholt station pitches are the exception: comments go to Bromley.

Last week’s list is here: home bid for Cowden pub’s holiday let.

Sources

Image: Station House, Knockholt Station by N Chadwick, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Geograph. Chart by Sevenoaks Online.