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St Francis, Fundraising Office, Estate Office, Accounts Office, Shalom & St Lawrence Burrswood Groombridge Tunbridge Wells Kent TN3 9PU

24/01540/ENVSCREIA Screening OpinionApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 28 June 2024

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

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

EIA Screening Opinion - Conversion of offices & residential to 3 dwellings, including alterations to fenestration, removal of porch canopies and first floor external access, demolition of 2 stores and single-storey extension & erection of rear extension (24/01435/FULL)

Received
29 May 2024
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Rusthall And Speldhurst
Agent
Graham Simpkin Planning Ltd
  1. Received29 May
  2. Validated10 Jun
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided28 Jun

Decided in 18 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for demolition at St Francis, Fundraising Office, Estate Office, Accounts Office, Shalom & St Lawrence Burrswood Groombridge Tunbridge Wells Kent TN3 9PU. Tunbridge Wells has handled 511 applications of this type. This one was decided in 30 days, 4 weeks quicker 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. In the past year there have been 62 applications across Rusthall And Speldhurst. We hold 1,126 applications in total for the TN3 postcode area.

89% of outline 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
TN3 9PU
Application type
EIA Screening Opinion
Scale / size
Medium
Parish
Speldhurst Parish Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
10 June 2024

Applicant and agent

Agent
Graham Simpkin Planning Ltd
Architect profile
GRAHAM SIMPKIN PLANNING LIMITED
Agent address
Graham Simpkin Planning Ltd 2 The Parade Ash Road Hartley DA3 8BG

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-13011854
Documents
2
Constraints
18

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Green belt: Tunbridge Wells
  • 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 (19)

flood storage areas, listed buildings, 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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© 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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