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St Ronans School Water Lane Hawkhurst Cranbrook Kent TN18 5DJ

24/02983/FULLFull ApplicationApproved
Full

Approved on 17 January 2025

Council decision: Application PermittedDelegated (officer decision)

Proposal

Demolition of two existing outbuildings & erection of single replacement building for nursery use

Received
25 November 2024
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Hawkhurst, Sandhurst And Benenden
  1. Received25 Nov
  2. Validated29 Nov
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided17 Jan

Decided in 49 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for demolition at St Ronans School Water Lane Hawkhurst Cranbrook Kent TN18 5DJ. Tunbridge Wells has handled 1,962 applications of this type. This one was decided in 53 days, 3 days quicker 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 717 applications in total for the TN18 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
TN18 5DJ
Application type
Full Application
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Hawkhurst Parish Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
29 November 2024
Consultation expiry
3 January 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent
DOWSETTMAYHEW
Agent address
DOWSETTMAYHEW Planning Partnership Mocatta House Trafalgar Place Brighton BN1 4DU

Publicity

Last advertised
13 December 2024
Advertisement expiry
3 January 2025
Site notice start
9 December 2024
Site notice end
3 January 2025

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-13590997
Documents
16
Constraints
10

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
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.

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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