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Torrington Car Park Vale Road Royal Tunbridge Wells Kent TN1 1BT

26/00671/ENVSCREIA Screening OpinionDecided
Outline / PiP

Decided on 9 April 2026

Council decision: Environmental Impact Assessment Not Req.Delegated (officer decision)

Proposal

EIA Screening Opinion: Redevelopment comprising the partial demolition of existing structures and erection of a 17-storey building and 10-storey shoulder building for Built to Rent residential accommodation and associated amenity floorspace (Use Class C3) along with ground floor commercial use (Use Class E), existing facade refurbishment, hard and soft landscaping works, access, drainage, and all other associated works

Received
24 March 2026
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
0 · last counted 5 October 2026
Ward
Culverden
  1. Received24 Mar
  2. Validated24 Mar
  3. Consult.16 Apr
  4. Target14 Apr
  5. Decided9 Apr

Decided in 16 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an outline application for demolition at Torrington Car Park Vale Road Royal Tunbridge Wells Kent TN1 1BT. Tunbridge Wells has handled 511 applications of this type. The site is in a conservation area, with 1 listed building nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 78 applications across Culverden. We hold 268 applications in total for the TN1 postcode area.

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

Postcode
TN1 1BT
Application type
EIA Screening Opinion
Scale / size
Medium

Planning application dates

Date validated
24 March 2026
Consultation end
16 April 2026
Target decision date
14 April 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent
Williams Gallagher
Agent address
Somerset House 37 Temple Street Birmingham, B2 5DP

Additional information

Documents
5
Constraints
19

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

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, 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.

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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