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The Cottage Bentham Hill Stockland Green Road Speldhurst Tunbridge Wells Kent TN3 0TJ

25/02387/FULLFull ApplicationApproved
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Approved on 5 December 2025

Council decision: Application PermittedDelegated (officer decision)5 conditions

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

(Self-build) Existing garage & annexe conversion to a new detached dwelling; associated landscaping works

Received
6 October 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Southborough And Bidborough
Agent
TT Architecture
  1. Received6 Oct
  2. Validated10 Oct
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided5 Dec

Decided in 56 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a garage at The Cottage Bentham Hill Stockland Green Road Speldhurst Tunbridge Wells Kent TN3 0TJ. Tunbridge Wells has handled 1,962 applications of this type. This one was decided in 60 days, 11 days longer than Tunbridge Wells's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 62 applications across Southborough And Bidborough. We hold 1,126 applications in total for the TN3 postcode area.

96% of full 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

Postcode
TN3 0TJ
Application type
Full Application
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Southborough Town Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
10 October 2025
Consultation expiry
17 November 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent
TT Architecture
Architect profile
TT ARCHITECTURE LIMITED
Agent address
The Cottage Stockland Green Road Tunbridge Wells Kent TN3 0TJ

Publicity

Last advertised
24 October 2025
Advertisement expiry
14 November 2025
Site notice start
27 October 2025
Site notice end
17 November 2025

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14381820
Documents
11
Constraints
19

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • 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.

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.

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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