20 Birling Drive Royal Tunbridge Wells Kent TN2 5LG
Approved on 1 September 2016
Council decision: Application PermittedDelegated (officer decision)
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Proposal
Prior notification for a proposed single storey rear extension which:A) Extends by 4.60 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
- 4 August 2016
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Ward
- Pantiles & St Marks
- ReceivedReceived4 Aug
- ValidatedValidated4 Aug
- Consult.Consultation25 Aug
- TargetTarget Date15 Sep
- DecidedDecided1 Sep
Decided in 28 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 28 days, 4 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
- 4 August 2016
- Consultation expiry
- 26 August 2016
- Neighbour consultation start
- 4 August 2016
- Neighbour consultation end
- 25 August 2016
- Target decision date
- 15 September 2016
- Decision issued
- 5 September 2016
- Permission expires
- 5 September 2021
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 42 days
Publicity
- Site notice start
- 5 August 2016
- Site notice end
- 26 August 2016
Additional information
- Documents
- 7
- Constraints
- 3
Site constraints
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.
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Planning history at this site
1 other application at this property, newest first.
Source: Tunbridge Wells
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