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Land Rear Of Fowlers Park Rye Road Hawkhurst Cranbrook Kent

22/02804/ENVSCREIA Screening OpinionApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 4 November 2022

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

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

EIA Screening Opinion: Up to 70 residential units; Circa 1,150 sqm (GIA) doctors surgery (Use Class E); Circa 200 car parking spaces; Circa 100 cycle parking spaces; Vehicular and pedestrian access around the site; Hard and soft landscaping; Safeguarded land for the expansion of the Hawkhurst Church of England Primary School; Open space, comprising over half of the site.

Received
13 September 2022
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Hawkhurst & Sandhurst
  1. Received13 Sep
  2. Validated13 Sep
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided4 Nov

Decided in 52 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an outline application at Land Rear Of Fowlers Park Rye Road Hawkhurst Cranbrook Kent. Tunbridge Wells has handled 511 applications of this type. This one was decided in 52 days, 3 days longer than Tunbridge Wells's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area. There are no previous applications recorded 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
Large
Number of dwellings
70
Parish
Hawkhurst Parish Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
13 September 2022

Additional information

Documents
8
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.

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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