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Orchards Cranbrook Road Benenden Cranbrook Kent TN17 4ET

25/02570/FULLFull ApplicationWithdrawn
Full

Withdrawn on 18 December 2025

Council decision: Application WithdrawnDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Excavation of ground & erection of a timber sleeper retaining wall.

Received
22 October 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Hawkhurst, Sandhurst And Benenden
Agent
NAPC Ltd
  1. Received22 Oct
  2. Validated30 Oct
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided18 Dec

Decided in 49 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a full planning application at Orchards Cranbrook Road Benenden Cranbrook Kent TN17 4ET. Tunbridge Wells has handled 1,962 applications of this type. It was withdrawn 57 days after it was submitted, before a decision was made. The site is in a conservation area. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 83 applications across Hawkhurst, Sandhurst And Benenden. 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 4ET
Application type
Full Application
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Benenden Parish Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
30 October 2025
Consultation expiry
4 December 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent
NAPC Ltd
Agent address
Suite 121 Watermoor Point Watermoor Road Cirencester GL7 1LF

Publicity

Site notice start
12 November 2025
Site notice end
4 December 2025

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14430804
Documents
7
Constraints
11

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • 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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