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20 Birling Drive Royal Tunbridge Wells Kent TN2 5LG

15/504624/PNEXTPrior Notifcation - ExtensionsApproved
Prior approval

Approved on 23 July 2015

Council decision: Application PermittedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Prior notification for a proposed single storey rear extension which:A) Extends by 4.25 metres beyond the rear wall of the original dwelling.B) Has a maximum height of 4 metres from the natural ground level.C) Has a height of 3 metres at the eaves from the natural ground level.

Received
15 June 2015
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Pantiles & St Marks
  1. Received15 Jun
  2. Validated15 Jun
  3. Consult.7 Jul
  4. Target27 Jul
  5. Decided23 Jul

Decided in 38 days

About this application

This is a planning application for a single storey rear extension at 20 Birling Drive Royal Tunbridge Wells Kent TN2 5LG. Tunbridge Wells has handled 5,829 applications of this type. This one was decided in 38 days, 3 weeks quicker than Tunbridge Wells's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area. There has been 1 other application at this address. We hold 1,580 applications in total for the TN2 postcode area.

Application details

Postcode
TN2 5LG
Application type
Prior Notifcation - Extensions
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
15 June 2015
Consultation expiry
7 July 2015
Neighbour consultation start
16 June 2015
Neighbour consultation end
7 July 2015
Target decision date
27 July 2015
Permission expires
23 July 2020

Planning decision

Statutory period
42 days

Additional information

Documents
9
Constraints
7

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

Not published by this council, so not checked: conservation areas, Article 4 directions and tree preservation orders. Ask the council if these matter.

Also checked, none recorded (21)

flood storage 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: Tunbridge Wells

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