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Matrix House Orchard Business Park Furnace Lane Horsmonden Tonbridge Kent TN12 8LX

20/01182/PNOCLAPrior Notification - Class OApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 17 June 2020

Council decision: Prior Approval GrantedDelegated (officer decision)

Proposal

Notification for Prior Approval for a Proposed Change of use of a Building from Office use (Class B1(a)) to Dwellinghouse (Class C3) For its prior approval to: - Transport and highways impacts; - Contamination risk; - Flooding risks; - Impacts of noise from commercial premises on the intended occupiers of the development.

Received
23 April 2020
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Brenchley & Horsmonden
Agent
The Rural Planning Practice
  1. Received23 Apr
  2. Validated29 Apr
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided17 Jun

Decided in 49 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for a change of use at Matrix House Orchard Business Park Furnace Lane Horsmonden Tonbridge Kent TN12 8LX. Tunbridge Wells has handled 511 applications of this type. This one was decided in 55 days. The site is in a conservation area. There have been 2 other applications at this address. We hold 1,127 applications in total for the TN12 postcode area.

89% of outline 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
TN12 8LX
Application type
Prior Notification - Class O
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Horsmonden Parish Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
29 April 2020
Consultation expiry
27 May 2020

Applicant and agent

Agent
The Rural Planning Practice
Agent address
53-55 High Street Cranbrook Kent, TN17 3EE

Publicity

Site notice start
6 May 2020
Site notice end
27 May 2020

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-08611270
Documents
9
Constraints
4

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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