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Land At Little Mount Farm Benhall Mill Road Royal Tunbridge Wells Kent

25/00257/ADJAdjoining Authority ConsultationApproved
Discharge / amendments

Approved on 12 February 2025

Council decision: No ObjectionsDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Adjoining Authority Consultation: Variation of conditions 4 & 8 of WD/2021/2467/MRM (reserved matters pursuant to outline permission WD/2019/1648/MAO (outline application for the demolition of the existing buildings on site and the erection of a continuing care retirement community of up to 146 units of accommodation (c2 use) and community facilities including restaurant, café, shop, hairdressers, spa, cinema and GP facility, with access, infrastructure, open space, landscaping and associated works (all matters reserved except for access)) - phase 1 comprising the erection of 55 units of accommodation (c2 use), communal facilities, energy centre, maintenance building and other ancillary structures, parking, landscaping, suds and other associated works) to enable internal/external alterations to village centre building; revision of bay window design to blocks B1, B2, B3 & B4; update to roller shutter door on maintenance building; alterations to internal layout, reduction in ridge height and reconfiguration of roof design to energy centre; additional cycle storage; alterations to bin store and cycle storage replaced with scooter storage; and amendments to landscaping.

Received
29 January 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Outside All Boroughs
  1. Received29 Jan
  2. Validated29 Jan
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided12 Feb

Decided in 14 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for demolition at Land At Little Mount Farm Benhall Mill Road Royal Tunbridge Wells Kent. Tunbridge Wells has handled 511 applications of this type. This one was decided in 14 days, 6 weeks 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 4 applications across Outside All Boroughs. We hold 268 applications in total for the TN1 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
TN1 2DL
Application type
Adjoining Authority Consultation
Scale / size
Large
Number of dwellings
146
Parish
Outside Borough

Planning application dates

Date validated
29 January 2025

Additional information

Documents
27
Constraints
4

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

  • 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.

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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