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Garden Court High Street Hawkhurst Cranbrook TN18 4JS

19/00597/FULLFull ApplicationApproved
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Approved on 4 July 2019

Council decision: Application PermittedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Proposed garage conversion to ancillary living space with internal alterations

Received
8 March 2019
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Hawkhurst & Sandhurst
Agent
Kent Design Studio Ltd
  1. Received8 Mar
  2. Validated13 Mar
  3. Consult.
  4. Target8 May
  5. Decided4 Jul

Decided in 113 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a garage at Garden Court High Street Hawkhurst Cranbrook TN18 4JS. Tunbridge Wells has handled 1,962 applications of this type. This one was decided in 118 days, 9 weeks longer than Tunbridge Wells's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area, with 2 listed buildings nearby. There have been 2 other applications at this address. We hold 717 applications in total for the TN18 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
TN18 4JS
Application type
Full Application
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Hawkhurst Parish Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
13 March 2019
Consultation expiry
17 May 2019
Target decision date
8 May 2019

Applicant and agent

Agent
Kent Design Studio Ltd
Architect profile
KENT DESIGN STUDIO LIMITED
Agent address
The Workshop Rose Cottage Farm, North Street Biddenden Ashford TN27 8BA

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Last advertised
26 April 2019
Advertisement expiry
17 May 2019
Site notice start
17 April 2019
Site notice end
17 May 2019

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-07686560
Documents
14
Constraints
6

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

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 (19)

flood storage areas, 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, 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

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© Natural England copyright. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

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Source: Tunbridge Wells

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