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6 Highdown Cottages Church Road Kilndown Cranbrook Kent TN17 2RY

25/00300/FULLFull ApplicationApproved
Full

Approved on 3 April 2025

Council decision: Application PermittedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Two-storey & part single-storey rear extension with new front entrance porch & removal of side door

Received
5 February 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Rural Tunbridge Wells
Agent
Pump House Designs
  1. Received5 Feb
  2. Validated10 Feb
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided3 Apr

Decided in 52 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a single storey rear extension at 6 Highdown Cottages Church Road Kilndown Cranbrook Kent TN17 2RY. Tunbridge Wells has handled 1,962 applications of this type. This one was decided in 57 days. The site is in a conservation area. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 143 applications across Rural Tunbridge Wells. 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 2RY
Application type
Full Application
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Goudhurst Parish Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
10 February 2025
Consultation expiry
14 March 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent
Pump House Designs
Agent address
38 High Street Battle TN33 0EA

Publicity

Last advertised
21 February 2025
Advertisement expiry
14 March 2025
Site notice start
13 February 2025
Site notice end
6 March 2025

Appeal history

3366691
Allowed
Type: Householder (HAS)Procedure: Written RepresentationsDecision: 19 August 2025Dev Type: Householder developmentsReason: Refusal

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-13748269
Documents
8
Constraints
16

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • 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

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© 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.

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Source: Tunbridge Wells

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