Land To East Of Highgate Hill And South Of Copthall Avenue Hawkhurst Cranbrook Kent TN18 4LS

24/02458/SUBSubmission of DetailsRefused

Discharge / amendments

Refused on 22 December 2025

Council decision: Application RefusedDelegated (officer decision)1 reason for refusal

Approximate location: the centre of the postcode, not the exact property.

Proposal

Partial Submission of Details in relation to Condition 22 for Plots 1-17 - (Verification Report) of 20/02788/FULL

Received: 24 September 2024
Decision level: Delegated (officer decision)
Council: Tunbridge Wells Borough Council
Ward: Hawkhurst, Sandhurst And Benenden

ReceivedReceived24 Sep
ValidatedValidated30 Sep
Consult.Consultation
TargetTarget Date
DecidedDecided22 Dec

Decided in 448 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to discharge conditions at Land To East Of Highgate Hill And South Of Copthall Avenue Hawkhurst Cranbrook Kent TN18 4LS. Tunbridge Wells has handled 814 applications of this type. This one was decided in 454 days, 57 weeks longer than Tunbridge Wells's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area. There have been 30 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 84 applications across Hawkhurst, Sandhurst And Benenden. We hold 717 applications in total for the TN18 postcode area.

98% of conditions 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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Why it was refused

There is insufficient evidence to demonstrate that that flood risks from development to the future users of the land and neighbouring land have been minimised, together with those risks to controlled waters, property and ecological systems, and to ensure that the development as constructed is compliant with those details and can be subsequently maintained. The proposal is therefore contrary to Policy EN26 of the Tunbridge Wells Borough Local Plan 2025 and paragraph 182 of the National Planning Policy Framework 2024 (amended 2025) Tunbridge Wells Borough Council, Planning Services, Town Hall, Tunbridge Wells, Kent TN1 1RS - 01892 554604

From the council's decision notice.

Application details

Postcode: TN18 4LS
Application type: Submission of Details
Scale / size: Small
Parish: Hawkhurst Parish Council

Planning application dates

Date validated: 30 September 2024

Additional information

Planning Portal ID: PP-13431128
Documents: 22
Constraints: 25

Site constraints

Checking the site

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Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

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 (20)

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, 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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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.

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.

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