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Birchfield Rye Road Hawkhurst Cranbrook Kent TN18 5DA

19/02730/LBCListed Building ConsentApproved

Approved on 25 November 2019

Council decision: Application PermittedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Listed Building Consent: Demolition of existing rear extension and erection of rear extension with roof extension, to allow provision for a bathroom at first floor. Form new steps/stairs and bulkheads. Modify existing opening and create new opening. Relocation of boiler and flue. Provision of roof light to utility, on north facing roof slope

Received
24 September 2019
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Hawkhurst & Sandhurst
Agent
Roger Howells Architects
  1. Received24 Sep
  2. Validated30 Sep
  3. Consult.
  4. Target25 Nov
  5. Decided25 Nov

Decided in 56 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a heritage application for demolition at Birchfield Rye Road Hawkhurst Cranbrook Kent TN18 5DA. Tunbridge Wells has handled 262 applications of this type. This one was decided in 62 days, 6 days longer than Tunbridge Wells's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area, with 2 listed buildings nearby. There have been 6 other applications at this address. We hold 717 applications in total for the TN18 postcode area.

96% of heritage 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 5DA
Application type
Listed Building Consent
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Hawkhurst Parish Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
30 September 2019
Consultation expiry
8 November 2019
Target decision date
25 November 2019

Applicant and agent

Agent
Roger Howells Architects
Agent address
Sparks Oasthouse Staplecross Road Northiam Rye East Sussex, TN31 6JP

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Last advertised
18 October 2019
Advertisement expiry
8 November 2019
Site notice start
8 October 2019
Site notice end
29 October 2019

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-08161721
Documents
12
Constraints
11

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Listed building: Grade II: The Coach HousesOn this site
  • 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 (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.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Flood Map for Planning, Open Government Licence v3.0.

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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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