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Unit 7C, The Fountains Retail Park Dowding Way Royal Tunbridge Wells Kent

25/01195/FULLFull ApplicationApproved
Full

Approved on 30 September 2025

Council decision: Application PermittedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Variation of condition 3 of 12/02118/FUL to allow retail use (Class E(a)) alongside Class E(b) (Sale of food and drink for consumption (mostly) on the premises) and/or drinking establishment (sui generis) and/or hot food takeaway (sui generis).

Received
16 May 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Sherwood
  1. Received16 May
  2. Validated27 Jun
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided30 Sep

Decided in 95 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application at Unit 7C, The Fountains Retail Park Dowding Way Royal Tunbridge Wells Kent. Tunbridge Wells has handled 1,962 applications of this type. This one was decided in 137 days, 12 weeks 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 40 applications across Sherwood.

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

Application type
Full Application
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
27 June 2025
Consultation expiry
30 July 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent
Quod
Agent address
21 Soho Square London W1D 3QP

Publicity

Site notice start
9 July 2025
Site notice end
30 July 2025

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-13932706
Documents
18
Constraints
13

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Flood zone 3: High probability (rivers and sea)Part of the site

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

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© 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.

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Source: Tunbridge Wells

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