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Farm Building Rear Of Whitegates Stepneyford Lane Benenden Cranbrook Kent

26/00839/PNRPrior Notification Class RDecided
Outline / PiP

Decided on 6 May 2026

Council decision: No Further Action RequiredDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Prior Notification under Class R for change of use of agricultural building to Office (Class E)

Received
15 April 2026
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
0 · last counted 6 October 2026
Ward
Hawkhurst, Sandhurst And Benenden
Agent
Kent Design Studio
  1. Received15 Apr
  2. Validated15 Apr
  3. Consult.
  4. Target10 Jun
  5. Decided6 May

Decided in 21 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an outline application for a change of use at Farm Building Rear Of Whitegates Stepneyford Lane Benenden Cranbrook Kent. Tunbridge Wells has handled 511 applications of this type. 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 Hawkhurst, Sandhurst And Benenden.

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
Prior Notification Class R
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Benenden Parish Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
15 April 2026
Target decision date
10 June 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent
Kent Design Studio
Architect profile
KENT DESIGN STUDIO LIMITED
Agent address
Studio 1, The Wool Store Fullers Way Biddenden Ashford Kent, TN27 8FQ

Additional information

Documents
6
Constraints
7

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Listed building: Grade II: WhitegatesOn or next to this site · +1 more
  • 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, 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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