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Land North Of Birchfield Grove Hawkhurst Cranbrook Kent

22/02664/HYBRIDHybrid ApplicationsApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 22 May 2025

Council decision: Application PermittedPlanning committee40 conditions

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

HYBRID Application - Outline Application (All matters reserved except access), Development of up to 70 homes with associated medical centre, parking and landscaping, Full planning application for creation of new country park.

Received
2 September 2022
Decision level
Planning committee
Ward
Hawkhurst & Sandhurst
  1. Received2 Sep
  2. Validated7 Sep
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided22 May

Decided in 988 days

About this application

This is a planning application at Land North Of Birchfield Grove Hawkhurst Cranbrook Kent. Tunbridge Wells has handled 5,829 applications of this type. The site is in a conservation area. There are no previous applications recorded at this address.

Application details

Application type
Hybrid Applications
Scale / size
Large
Number of dwellings
70
Parish
Hawkhurst Parish Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
7 September 2022
Consultation expiry
2 September 2023

Publicity

Last advertised
30 September 2022
Advertisement expiry
21 October 2022
Site notice start
18 August 2023
Site notice end
2 September 2023

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-11514489
Documents
519
Constraints
45

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • National Landscape (AONB): High Weald
  • Ancient woodlandPart of the site · +1 more
  • 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, 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, 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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© 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.

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Source: Tunbridge Wells

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