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Hawkhurst Place Farm Rye Road Hawkhurst Cranbrook Kent

20/02024/ENVSCREIA Screening OpinionApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 28 August 2020

Council decision: Environmental Impact Assessment Not Req.Delegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

EIA Screening Opinion - Demolition of redundant buildings; provision of significant landscaping and ecological enhancements; conversion of buildings from a flexible commercial use falling within Class B8 (storage and distribution) to a single residential dwelling and detached garage (20/01984/FULL Refers)

Received
16 July 2020
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Hawkhurst & Sandhurst
Agent
Bloomfields Ltd
  1. Received16 Jul
  2. Validated4 Aug
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided28 Aug

Decided in 24 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an outline application for demolition at Hawkhurst Place Farm Rye Road Hawkhurst Cranbrook Kent. Tunbridge Wells has handled 511 applications of this type. This one was decided in 43 days, 6 days quicker than Tunbridge Wells's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area. There have been 4 other applications at this address.

89% of outline applications at Tunbridge Wells Borough Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 7 weeks (median).

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Application details

Application type
EIA Screening Opinion
Scale / size
Medium
Parish
Hawkhurst Parish Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
4 August 2020

Applicant and agent

Agent
Bloomfields Ltd
Agent address
77 Commercial Road Paddock Wood Tonbridge Kent, TN12 6DS

Additional information

Documents
2
Constraints
10

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

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