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The Boat House Bistro Bewl Water Bewl Bridge Lane Cousley Wood Wadhurst TN3 8JH

25/01831/ADJAdjoining Authority ConsultationApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 6 August 2025

Council decision: No ObjectionsDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Adjoining Authority Consultation: Extensions and alterations to the boat house bistro, replacement of the adjacent fishing facility building and change of use to form 7 x 1 bed and 4 x 2 bed tourist units, creation of a cafe with terrace, with water sport facilities retained

Received
30 July 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Outside All Boroughs
  1. Received30 Jul
  2. Validated30 Jul
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided6 Aug

Decided in 7 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for a change of use at The Boat House Bistro Bewl Water Bewl Bridge Lane Cousley Wood Wadhurst TN3 8JH. Tunbridge Wells has handled 511 applications of this type. This one was decided in 7 days, 7 weeks quicker than Tunbridge Wells's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 4 applications across Outside All Boroughs. We hold 1,125 applications in total for the TN3 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
TN3 8JH
Application type
Adjoining Authority Consultation
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Outside Borough

Planning application dates

Date validated
30 July 2025

Publicity

Site notice start
4 August 2025

Appeal history

6006398
Allowed
Type: Planning AppealProcedure: Written RepresentationsDecision: 7 August 2026Dev Type: Other Major DevelopmentsReason: refused

Additional information

Documents
28
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.

  • 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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