Nightingale Barn Goddards Green Road Benenden Cranbrook Kent TN17 4BG
Approved on 9 September 2024
Council decision: Application PermittedDelegated (officer decision)
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Proposal
Change of use of home office/studio into holiday let including first floor extension, alterations to fenestration and roof lights and raised timber deck
- Received
- 12 July 2024
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Ward
- Hawkhurst, Sandhurst And Benenden
- ReceivedReceived12 Jul
- ValidatedValidated18 Jul
- Consult.Consultation
- TargetTarget Date
- DecidedDecided9 Sep
Decided in 53 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is a full planning application for a change of use at Nightingale Barn Goddards Green Road Benenden Cranbrook Kent TN17 4BG. Tunbridge Wells has handled 1,962 applications of this type. This one was decided in 59 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. In the past year there have been 84 applications across Hawkhurst, Sandhurst And Benenden. We hold 1,133 applications in total for the TN17 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
- TN17 4BG
- Application type
- Full Application
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Benenden Parish Council
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 18 July 2024
- Consultation expiry
- 23 August 2024
Applicant and agent
- Agent address
- The Oast Forstal Farm Leigh Green Tenterden TN30 7DF
Publicity
- Last advertised
- 2 August 2024
- Advertisement expiry
- 23 August 2024
- Site notice start
- 31 July 2024
- Site notice end
- 21 August 2024
Appeal history
Additional information
- Planning Portal ID
- PP-12912747
- Documents
- 14
- Constraints
- 7
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- 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 (21)
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, 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.
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Source: Tunbridge Wells
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