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Upper Church Of St Peters Hastings Road Pembury Tunbridge Wells Kent TN2 4PD

20/02674/FULLFull ApplicationApproved
Full

Approved on 30 November 2020

Council decision: Application PermittedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Construction of a new single-storey church & community hall with toilets, kitchen and ancillary spaces on the south side of the existing church; independent entrance at the west end and be linked to the existing church via a new opening in the base of the tower; Infil of existing opening in the listed site boundary wall and a new opening formed to provide access to the new kitchen and emergency escape; enclosed store for refuse and re-cycling bins in the south west corner of the boundary wall.

Received
16 September 2020
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Pembury
Agent
Thomas Ford and Partners
  1. Received16 Sep
  2. Validated5 Oct
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided30 Nov

Decided in 56 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application at Upper Church Of St Peters Hastings Road Pembury Tunbridge Wells Kent TN2 4PD. Tunbridge Wells has handled 1,962 applications of this type. This one was decided in 75 days, 3 weeks longer than Tunbridge Wells's typical decision time. There has been 1 other application at this address. We hold 1,580 applications in total for the TN2 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
TN2 4PD
Application type
Full Application
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Pembury Parish Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
5 October 2020
Consultation expiry
25 November 2020

Applicant and agent

Agent
Thomas Ford and Partners
Architect profile
THOMAS FORD & PARTNERS LIMITED
Agent address
177 Kirkdale London SE26 4QH

Publicity

Last advertised
23 October 2020
Advertisement expiry
13 November 2020
Site notice start
4 November 2020
Site notice end
25 November 2020

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-09052510
Documents
15
Constraints
13

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 (20)

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, 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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