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Capel Grange Farm Badsell Road Five Oak Green Tonbridge Kent TN12 6QX

26/01495/PNQCLAPrior Notification Class QApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 26 August 2026

Council decision: Prior Approval GrantedDelegated (officer decision)

Proposal

Prior notification for the change of use of 3 agricultural buildings & land within their curtilage from agricultural to 5 dwellings under C3 residential use, with reasonably necessary building operations

Received
3 July 2026
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Pembury And Capel
Agent
Maple Planning & Development Ltd
  1. Received3 Jul
  2. Validated6 Jul
  3. Consult.27 Jul
  4. Target31 Aug
  5. Decided26 Aug

Decided in 51 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an outline application for a change of use at Capel Grange Farm Badsell Road Five Oak Green Tonbridge Kent TN12 6QX. Tunbridge Wells has handled 511 applications of this type. This one was decided in 51 days. The site is in a conservation area. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 100 applications across Pembury And Capel. We hold 1,128 applications in total for the TN12 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
TN12 6QX
Application type
Prior Notification Class Q
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Capel Parish Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
6 July 2026
Consultation expiry
27 July 2026
Consultation end
27 July 2026
Target decision date
31 August 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent
Maple Planning & Development Ltd
Agent address
PO Box 573 Tunbridge Wells, TN2 9WF

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-15054957
Documents
25
Constraints
22

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

  • Green belt: Tunbridge Wells
  • 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, 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.

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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