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Westfield Highgate Hill Hawkhurst Cranbrook Kent, TN18 4LS

19/01253/FULLFull ApplicationWithdrawn
Full

Withdrawn on 23 September 2020

Council decision: Application WithdrawnDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Erection of 31No. residential dwellings and the retention of existing Westfield property. Provision of altered access on to Highgate Hill, associated hard and soft landscaping, retained woodland area and sustainable urban drainage systems (SUDS).

Received
6 May 2019
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Hawkhurst & Sandhurst
  1. Received6 May
  2. Validated16 May
  3. Consult.
  4. Target15 Aug
  5. Decided23 Sep

Decided in 496 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application at Westfield Highgate Hill Hawkhurst Cranbrook Kent, TN18 4LS. Tunbridge Wells has handled 1,962 applications of this type. It was withdrawn 506 days after it was submitted, before a decision was made. The site is in a conservation area. There are no previous applications recorded 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 4LS
Application type
Full Application
Scale / size
Large
Number of dwellings
31
Parish
Hawkhurst Parish Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
16 May 2019
Consultation expiry
3 July 2019
Target decision date
15 August 2019

Applicant and agent

Agent
Barton Willmore
Agent address
The Observatory Castle Hill Drive Castle Hill Ebbsfleet Valley DA10 1EE

Planning decision

Statutory period
91 days

Publicity

Last advertised
7 June 2019
Advertisement expiry
28 June 2019
Site notice start
12 June 2019
Site notice end
3 July 2019

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-07821552
Documents
168
Constraints
7

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • National Landscape (AONB): High Weald
  • 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 (20)

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, 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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