1 Folly Hill Farm Cottages Folly Hill Cranbrook Kent TN17 2LU
Approved on 15 December 2025
Council decision: Application PermittedDelegated (officer decision)4 conditions
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Proposal
Removal of existing outbuilding & erection of a garage/store/home office/studio building.
- Received
- 17 October 2025
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Ward
- Cranbrook, Sissinghurst And Frittenden
- ReceivedReceived17 Oct
- ValidatedValidated20 Oct
- Consult.Consultation
- TargetTarget Date
- DecidedDecided15 Dec
Decided in 56 days (council typically 49)
About this application
This is a full planning application for a garage at 1 Folly Hill Farm Cottages Folly Hill Cranbrook Kent TN17 2LU. Tunbridge Wells has handled 1,962 applications of this type. This one was decided in 59 days, 10 days 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 84 applications across Cranbrook, Sissinghurst And Frittenden. We hold 1,133 applications in total for the TN17 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
- TN17 2LU
- Application type
- Full Application
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Cranbrook & Sissinghurst Parish Council
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 20 October 2025
- Consultation expiry
- 3 December 2025
Publicity
- Site notice start
- 12 November 2025
- Site notice end
- 3 December 2025
Additional information
- Planning Portal ID
- PP-11320458
- Documents
- 12
- Constraints
- 11
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- 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 (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.
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