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Royal Mail Sorting Office, 20, Vale Rise, Tonbridge, TN9 1AA

25/01362/PAMinor planning permissionApproved
Full

Approved on 20 October 2025

Delegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Installation of a new steel ramp, leading from the Royal Mail operations floor to the lower level ground floor parking area.

Received
14 August 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Cage Green And Angel
  1. Received14 Aug
  2. Validated27 Aug
  3. Consult.
  4. Target22 Oct
  5. Decided20 Oct

Decided in 54 days (council typically 63)

About this application

This is a full planning application at ROYAL MAIL SORTING OFFICE, 20, VALE RISE, TONBRIDGE, TN9 1AA. Tonbridge has handled 2,266 applications of this type. This one was decided in 67 days, 4 days longer than Tonbridge's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 115 applications across Cage Green And Angel. We hold 641 applications in total for the TN9 postcode area.

93% of full applications at Tonbridge and Malling Borough Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 9 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
TN9 1AA
Application type
Minor planning permission
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Tonbridge

Planning application dates

Date validated
27 August 2025
Target decision date
22 October 2025
Application expires
25 September 2025
Permission expires
19 October 2028

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Site notice start
3 September 2025

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14249820
UPRN
200000962015
Documents
8

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Flood zone 2: Medium probability (rivers and sea)Next to the site

Not published by this council, so not checked: Article 4 directions. Ask the council if these matter.

Possibly incomplete for this council: tree preservation orders.

Also checked, none recorded (22)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, green belt, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, registered parks and gardens, registered battlefields, Heritage at Risk entries, nutrient neutrality catchments, national parks, National Landscapes, SSSIs, Special Areas of Conservation, Special Protection Areas, Ramsar sites, ancient woodland, national nature reserves, local nature reserves, heritage coasts and brownfield registers.

A guide only, from official open data; it is not a planning search. Flood zones cover rivers and sea, not surface water.

Data © Crown copyright and others · sources and licences

Contains public sector information from planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG and local planning authorities), licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© Historic England 2026. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. The Historic England GIS Data contained in this material was obtained on 2026-11-03. The most publicly available up to date Historic England GIS Data can be obtained from HistoricEngland.org.uk.

© Natural England copyright. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Flood Map for Planning, Open Government Licence v3.0.

Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Source: Tonbridge

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