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Court Lodge Groombridge Road Groombridge Tunbridge Wells Kent TN3 9PS

26/01509/SUBSubmission of DetailsApproved
Discharge / amendments

Approved on 11 September 2026

Council decision: Application PermittedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate location: the centre of the postcode, not the exact property.

Proposal

Submission of details in relation to condition 4 (External lighting) of 25/02349/FULL

Received
6 July 2026
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Rusthall And Speldhurst
Agent
AV Architects
  1. Received6 Jul
  2. Validated7 Jul
  3. Consult.
  4. Target1 Sep
  5. Decided11 Sep

Decided in 66 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to discharge conditions at Court Lodge Groombridge Road Groombridge Tunbridge Wells Kent TN3 9PS. Tunbridge Wells has handled 814 applications of this type. This one was decided in 66 days, 10 days longer than Tunbridge Wells's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area. There have been 7 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 62 applications across Rusthall And Speldhurst. We hold 1,125 applications in total for the TN3 postcode area.

98% of conditions applications at Tunbridge Wells Borough Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
TN3 9PS
Application type
Submission of Details
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Speldhurst Parish Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
7 July 2026
Target decision date
1 September 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent
AV Architects
Architect profile
AV ARCHITECTS LIMITED
Agent address
Town Hall Mount Pleasant Road Royal Tunbridge Wells Kent, TN1 1AL

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-15055804
Documents
6
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
  • 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, 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, 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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