Part OS Plot 7363 Groombridge Hill Groombridge Tunbridge Wells Kent
Approved on 20 October 2025
Council decision: Prior Approval GrantedDelegated (officer decision)1 condition
Proposal
Prior Notification of agricultural development - Proposed storage building
- Received
- 1 September 2025
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Ward
- Rusthall And Speldhurst
- Agent
- SJM Planning
- ReceivedReceived1 Sep
- ValidatedValidated1 Sep
- Consult.Consultation
- TargetTarget Date
- DecidedDecided20 Oct
Decided in 49 days (council typically 49)
About this application
This is an outline application at Part OS Plot 7363 Groombridge Hill Groombridge Tunbridge Wells Kent. Tunbridge Wells has handled 511 applications of this type. This one was decided in 49 days. The site is in a conservation area. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 62 applications across Rusthall And Speldhurst.
89% of outline applications at Tunbridge Wells Borough Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 7 weeks (median).
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Application details
- Application type
- Agricultural - Prior Approval App
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Speldhurst Parish Council
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 1 September 2025
Applicant and agent
- Agent
- SJM Planning
Publicity
- Site notice start
- 8 September 2025
Additional information
- Planning Portal ID
- PP-14235971
- Documents
- 12
- Constraints
- 20
Site constraints
Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.
- Green belt: Tunbridge Wells
- 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 (19)
flood storage areas, listed buildings, 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.
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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: 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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