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St Marks BBC Transmitting Station Frant Road Royal Tunbridge Wells Kent

17/01716/TN0T56Telecommunication PD 56 DaysApproved

Approved on 13 July 2017

Council decision: Prior Approval GrantedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate location: the centre of the postcode, not the exact property.

Proposal

Telecommunications Notification - Upgrade telecommunication equipment (including cabling & generator unit)

Received
22 May 2017
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Pantiles & St Marks
  1. Received22 May
  2. Validated22 May
  3. Consult.
  4. Target17 Jul
  5. Decided13 Jul

Decided in 52 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a telecoms application at St Marks BBC Transmitting Station Frant Road Royal Tunbridge Wells Kent. Tunbridge Wells has handled 48 applications of this type. This one was decided in 52 days, 3 days longer than Tunbridge Wells's typical decision time. There has been 1 other application at this address.

97% of telecoms applications at Tunbridge Wells Borough Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 7 weeks (median).

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Application details

Application type
Telecommunication PD 56 Days
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
22 May 2017
Consultation expiry
28 June 2017
Target decision date
17 July 2017

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Site notice start
7 June 2017
Site notice end
28 June 2017

Additional information

Documents
13
Constraints
6

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

  • 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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