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Garage Site St Martin Ashurst Road Ashurst Royal Tunbridge Wells Kent

17/00316/LDCEXLawful Development Cert. (Existing)Approved
Lawful development certificate

Approved on 13 April 2017

Council decision: Application PermittedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Lawful Development Certificate (Existing) - Use of 2 garages and a separate building for business, workshop and storage purposes

Received
26 January 2017
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Speldhurst & Bidborough
  1. Received26 Jan
  2. Validated8 Feb
  3. Consult.
  4. Target5 Apr
  5. Decided13 Apr

Decided in 64 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at Garage Site St Martin Ashurst Road Ashurst Royal Tunbridge Wells Kent. Tunbridge Wells has handled 227 applications of this type. This one was decided in 77 days, 3 weeks longer than Tunbridge Wells's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area, with 11 listed buildings nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address.

89% of amendment applications at Tunbridge Wells Borough Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Application type
Lawful Development Cert. (Existing)
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Speldhurst

Planning application dates

Date validated
8 February 2017
Consultation expiry
7 March 2017
Target decision date
5 April 2017

Applicant and agent

Agent address
F.A.O. Mr David Crundwell The Black And White Shop Groombridge Tunbridge Wells Kent TN3 9QH

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Site notice start
14 February 2017
Site notice end
7 March 2017

Additional information

Documents
19
Constraints
12

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Listed building: Grade II: St MartinOn or next to this site
  • Green belt: Tunbridge Wells
  • National Landscape (AONB): High Weald
  • Ancient woodlandPart of the site
  • 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 (17)

flood storage areas, 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, SSSIs, Special Areas of Conservation, Special Protection Areas, Ramsar sites, 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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Source: Tunbridge Wells

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