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Bowmans Agricultural Storage Yard Hastings Road Matfield Tonbridge Kent TN12 7HE

25/01889/FULLApproved

Approved on 21 October 2026

Council decision: Application Permitted17 conditions

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

Proposal

Change of use of existing agricultural building to B8 storage use for the storage of tyres with associated highway & access improvements

Received
11 August 2025
Public comments
0 · last counted 28 October 2026
  1. Received11 Aug
  2. Validated21 Aug
  3. Consult.15 Jul
  4. Target16 Oct
  5. Decided21 Oct

Decided in 426 days

About this application

This is a planning application for a change of use at Bowmans Agricultural Storage Yard Hastings Road Matfield Tonbridge Kent TN12 7HE. Tunbridge Wells has handled 5,820 applications of this type. This one was decided in 426 days, 54 weeks longer than Tunbridge Wells's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area, with 1 listed building nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. We hold 1,126 applications in total for the TN12 postcode area.

Application details

Postcode
TN12 7HE

Planning application dates

Date validated
21 August 2025
Consultation end
15 July 2026
Target decision date
16 October 2025

Additional information

Documents
43

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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