Capel Grange Farm Badsell Road Five Oak Green Tonbridge Kent TN12 6QX Data via plota.co.uk

26/01495/PNQCLA - Prior Notification Class Q Approved
AgriculturalChange of useNew homes

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 Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

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Received
3 Jul 2026
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Validated
6 Jul 2026
✓
Consultation
21 Jul 2026
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Approved
26 Aug 2026

Approved on 26 Aug 2026 · Delegated Decision · Last checked 26 Aug 2026

Documents 8

Decision & officer reports 2

PDF Decision Notice Decision · 26 Aug 2026 View ↗ PDF Delegated Report Delegated Report · 26 Aug 2026 View ↗

Consultation & comments 5

PDF Capel Parish Council Parish Comments · 28 Jul 2026 View ↗ PDF Southern Water Comments - Map External Comments · 24 Jul 2026 View ↗ PDF Southern Water Comments External Comments · 24 Jul 2026 View ↗ PDF KCC Highways Comments Consultee Comment · 21 Jul 2026 View ↗ PDF Environmental Protection Consultee Comment · 8 Jul 2026 View ↗

Other documents 1

PDF ApplicationFormRedacted Application Details · 3 Jul 2026 View ↗

All documents on the council site ↗

Site constraints 4

Green belt: London
Inappropriate development needs very special circumstances.
Green belt policy allows a short list of exceptions, such as limited extensions and replacement buildings. Anything else needs very special circumstances that clearly outweigh the harm. Some green belt land can count as grey belt, where it does not strongly serve the green belt's purposes. The council decides this in its green belt assessment or on each application, so we do not mark it here.
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Agricultural land, grade 2
Best and most versatile land (grades 1, 2 and 3a). Source: the Predictive Agricultural Land Classification Map (Defra and Natural England, 2025; the Welsh Government's Predictive ALC Map 2 in Wales), a model rather than a site survey. Natural England's Provisional ALC map (1:250,000, 1970s), which most planning maps still show, had this area as grade 3. The predicted grade is Defra's current estimate; only a site survey settles it.
Where development of farmland is needed, policy prefers poorer land over the best and most versatile (grades 1, 2 and 3a). Three sources: Natural England's post-1988 field surveys, which are definitive where they exist; the Defra predictive map for England (2025) and the Welsh Government predictive map, modelled from the soil map with 3a and 3b split; and the 1970s provisional map, which planners and other services still show, coarser and with grade 3 undivided. Where the provisional and predicted grades disagree, treat the predicted grade as the current estimate and expect an application to carry its own survey.
Habitat network: Network Enhancement Zone 1
Where habitat is joined up enough to work as a network. Context, not a constraint on its own.
Also on the record
1 listed building within 150 m.
Not affected
Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · No scheduled monument at the site

Checked on 6 October 2026. Historic England, the Environment Agency, Natural England and council datasets, Open Government Licence. A boundary can run through a site and the council holds the definitive record: confirm with the council before relying on this.

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Important details

Council
Tunbridge Wells
Application type
Prior Notification Class Q
Postcode
TN12 6QX
Received
3 Jul 2026
Validated
6 Jul 2026
Ward
Pembury And Capel
Parish
Capel Parish Council
Case officer
Show
Target decision
31 Aug 2026
Decision
Prior Approval Granted
Decision date
26 Aug 2026
Decision level
Delegated Decision
Applicant
Show
Agent
Maple Planning & Development Ltd

How this decision compares

Decided in 51 days from validation, 23 days slower than Tunbridge Wells's median of 28 for agricultural works. Approved, as 80% of agricultural works here are.

92%decided within 8 weeks
80%approved
28decided in the last year

Plota live figures for agricultural works decided by Tunbridge Wells in the last twelve months, from validation. Tunbridge Wells decision record →

Consultation & key dates

Alt. reference
PP-15054957
Planning Portal ref
PP-15054957
Comments by
11 Aug 2026
Site or press notice
21 Jul 2026
Statutory expiry
31 Aug 2026
Env. assessment
No

Historical activity at this location

15 previous applications on record - archival context, not part of the live application.

This property

Previous applications at this address

2025 Approved
Submission of Details in relation to Condition 1 (in part) - Remediation plan of 24/02611…
25/01908/SUB
2025 Approved
Submission of Details in relation to Condition 1 (in part) - Remediation plan of 24/02611…
25/01908/SUB
2025 Approved
Submission of Details in relation to Condition 12 Part 1 - (Preliminary Risk Assessment)…
25/01769/SUB
2025 Approved
Submission of Details in relation to Condition 12 Part 1 - (Preliminary Risk Assessment)…
25/01769/SUB
2024 Approved
Prior notification for change of use of a building and land within curtilage from an agri…
24/02611/PNQCLA
2024 Approved
Prior notification for change of use of a building and land within curtilage from an agri…
24/02611/PNQCLA
2023 Approved
Outline permission (All matters reserved) - Erection of up to 4 No. dwellings
23/01726/OUT
2022 Refused
Erection of up to 8 no. dwellings, including access with all other matters reserved
22/02246/OUT
2021 Approved
Change of use and conversion of agricultural buildings to form three separate dwellings t…
21/03422/FULL
2020 Approved
Prior Notification for the Change of Use of a Building and Land within its Curtilage from…
20/03401/PNQCLA
2019 Approved
Change of Use of a barn from agricultural building to sui generis, to allow the internal…
19/00970/FULL
2019 Approved
Change of Use of a barn from agricultural building to sui generis, to allow the internal…
19/00970/FULL
2018 Approved
Prior Notification for the Change of Use of a Building and Land within its Curtilage from…
18/02036/PNQCLA
2018 Approved
Prior Notification for the Change of Use of a Building and Land within its Curtilage from…
18/02036/PNQCLA
Within ~100m

Nearby activity

2016 Approved
Capel Grange Farm Badsell Road Five Oak Green Tonbridge TN12 6QX
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16/502678/FULL
Tunbridge Wells
Planning Authority Score
8.7/10
Excellent
#13 of 296 councils
Relevant to this application:
Change of use

Tunbridge Wells is one of the fastest councils in England for householder decisions, ranking #26 out of 296. Only 25% of applications have the time limit extended, well below the 41% national average - the council usually decides on time. Householder applications are slightly more likely to be approved here (96%) than the national average (90%).

Among the fastest councils in England
for householder decisions
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Tunbridge Wells decision statistics
Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026
93%
Overall approval rate
Above avg (87%) #69 of 296
96%
Householder approved
Above avg (90%) #63 of 296
84%
Decided in 8 weeks
Above avg (63%) #26 of 296
25%
Extended time limit
Below avg (41%) #32 of 296
85%
Minor dwellings approved
150 decided (1-9 homes)
82%
Major dwellings approved
11 decided (10+ homes)
96%
Change of use approved
47 decided
1,178
Total decisions
83 refused in the year to March 2026
Source: MHCLG planning statistics · See full council rankings