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Barn & Former Dairy Buildings Kippings Cross Farm Hastings Road Matfield Tonbridge Kent TN12 7HB

23/01143/PNRPrior Notification Class RRefused
Outline / PiP

Refused on 22 June 2023

Council decision: Application RefusedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Change of use of an agricultural building to a flexible use falling within Storage or Distribution (Class B8), Hotels (Class C1), Commercial/Business/Service (Class E).For its prior approval to:- Transport and highways impacts- Noise impacts- Contamination risk- Flooding risks

Received
28 April 2023
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Brenchley & Horsmonden
Agent
DC Hudson & Partner LLP
  1. Received28 Apr
  2. Validated2 May
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided22 Jun

Decided in 51 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an outline application for a change of use at Barn & Former Dairy Buildings Kippings Cross Farm Hastings Road Matfield Tonbridge Kent TN12 7HB. Tunbridge Wells has handled 511 applications of this type. This one was decided in 55 days, 6 days longer than Tunbridge Wells's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area, with 1 listed building nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. We hold 1,128 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 7 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
TN12 7HB
Application type
Prior Notification Class R
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Brenchley & Matfield Parish Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
2 May 2023
Consultation expiry
2 June 2023

Applicant and agent

Agent
DC Hudson & Partner LLP
Agent address
The Doctors House Royal British Legion Village Hall Road Aylesford Kent, ME20 7QX

Publicity

Site notice start
9 May 2023
Site notice end
2 June 2023

Additional information

Documents
16
Constraints
16

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 (19)

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, 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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