Coopers Wood, Holtye Road, Cowden, Edenbridge, TN8 7EG

WD/2025/0263/FFullApproved

Approved on 31 March 2025

Council decision: ApprovalDelegated (officer decision)

Proposal

PROPOSED PADEL BOARD COURT AND GYM ON SITE OF EXISTING TENNIS COURT

Received: 5 February 2025
Decision level: Delegated (officer decision)
Council: Wealden District Council
Ward: Hartfield

ReceivedReceived5 Feb
ValidatedValidated6 Feb
Consult.Consultation13 Mar
TargetTarget Date3 Apr
DecidedDecided31 Mar

Decided in 53 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application at COOPERS WOOD, HOLTYE ROAD, COWDEN, EDENBRIDGE, TN8 7EG. Wealden has handled 5,916 applications of this type. This one was decided in 54 days. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 97 applications across Hartfield. We hold 1,036 applications in total for the TN8 postcode area.

86% of full applications at Wealden District Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode: TN8 7EG
Application type: Full
Scale / size: Small
Parish: Hartfield

Planning application dates

Date validated: 6 February 2025
Consultation expiry: 13 March 2025
Consultation start: 20 February 2025
Consultation end: 13 March 2025
Target decision date: 3 April 2025
Committee meeting: 31 March 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent address: The Farm Office Barden Dell Farm Barden Road Bidborough Tunbridge Wells Kent TN3 0LJ

Planning decision

Statutory period: 56 days

Publicity

Site notice start: 20 February 2025

Additional information

Documents: 9

Site constraints

Checking the site

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Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

National Landscape (AONB): High Weald
Ancient woodland: Steadleaze Wood/ Coopers Wood
Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

Not published by this council, so not checked: Article 4 directions and tree preservation orders. Ask the council if these matter.

Also checked, none recorded (20)

flood storage areas, conservation 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, 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.

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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.

Source: Wealden

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