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Hillside Farm Franks Hollow Road Bidborough Royal Tunbridge Wells Kent TN3 0UB

19/00070/FULLFull ApplicationApproved
Full

Approved on 3 May 2019

Council decision: Application PermittedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Proposed change of use and conversion of existing disused agricultural building into residential use and associated car parking

Received
7 January 2019
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Speldhurst & Bidborough
  1. Received7 Jan
  2. Validated15 Jan
  3. Consult.
  4. Target12 Mar
  5. Decided3 May

Decided in 108 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at Hillside Farm Franks Hollow Road Bidborough Royal Tunbridge Wells Kent TN3 0UB. Tunbridge Wells has handled 1,962 applications of this type. This one was decided in 116 days, 9 weeks longer than Tunbridge Wells's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. We hold 1,125 applications in total for the TN3 postcode area.

96% of full 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

Postcode
TN3 0UB
Application type
Full Application
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Bidborough Parish Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
15 January 2019
Consultation expiry
13 February 2019
Target decision date
12 March 2019

Applicant and agent

Agent
Madgwick & Dottridge
Agent address
16 Mount Ephraim Tunbridge Wells Kent, TN4 8AS

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Site notice start
23 January 2019
Site notice end
13 February 2019

Additional information

Documents
23
Constraints
12

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • 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 (18)

flood storage areas, listed buildings, 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.

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