Scotney Castle Hastings Road Lamberhurst Tunbridge Wells Kent TN3 8JD Data via plota.co.uk

26/01835/NMAMD - Non Material Amendments Approved
Admin / procedural

Proposal

Non-material amendment to 26/00181/FULL for staircase replacement, ramp and glazing changes Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

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Received
17 Aug 2026
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Validated
25 Aug 2026
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Approved
9 Sept 2026

Approved on 9 Sept 2026 · Delegated Decision · Last checked 9 Sept 2026

Documents 3

Decision & officer reports 2

PDF Decision Notice Decision · 9 Sept 2026 View ↗ PDF Delegated Report Delegated Report · 9 Sept 2026 View ↗

Other documents 1

PDF ApplicationFormRedacted Application Details · 17 Aug 2026 View ↗

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Associated applications 5

Site constraints 8

Grade I listed: Scotney Castle With Courtyards and Garden Terrace
List entry 1336699 · 2 m from the pin · 1 more listed building within 150 m (1 Grade II)
Listed building consent is needed for work that affects the special interest of a listed building, inside or out, on top of planning permission. Setting can be a consideration for buildings nearby; there is no fixed radius.
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Historic England ↗
High Weald National Landscape
Great weight to conserving the landscape; major development restricted.
Previously an area of outstanding natural beauty, which is still the designation in law. Since 2023 authorities must seek to further its purpose, not merely have regard to it.
Registered park or garden: Scotney Castle
Nationally designated heritage. Its significance and setting carry great weight.
Registered parks and gardens, battlefields, world heritage sites and protected wrecks are designated heritage assets: harm needs clear and convincing justification.
Historic England ↗
Agricultural land, grade 3b
Not best and most versatile land (grades 1, 2 and 3a). Predicted from the national soil map. The older provisional map agrees.
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.
SSSI 8 m away: Scotney Castle SSSI
Natural England may need consulting, depending on what is proposed.
Sites of special scientific interest are the best wildlife and geological sites in the country. Development likely to harm one is rarely permitted.
Habitat network: Lowland meadows
Where habitat is joined up enough to work as a network. Context, not a constraint on its own.
Also on the record
Scheduled monument 204 m away: A quadrangular castle and 16th/17th century manor house known as Old Scotney Castle, set in a 19th century landscaped garden; Priority habitat 9 m away: Lowland meadows.
Not affected
Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · Not green belt

Checked on 11 September 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
Non Material Amendments
Postcode
TN3 8JD
Received
17 Aug 2026
Validated
25 Aug 2026
Ward
Rural Tunbridge Wells
Parish
Lamberhurst Parish Council
Case officer
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Target decision
22 Sept 2026
Decision
Application Permitted
Decision date
9 Sept 2026
Decision level
Delegated Decision
Applicant
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Consultation & key dates

Alt. reference
PP-15085579
Statutory expiry
22 Sept 2026
Env. assessment
No

Historical activity at this location

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

This property

Previous applications at this address

2024 Approved
Erection of woodland viewing platform (part retrospective)
24/02845/FULL
2024 Approved
Erection of woodland viewing platform (part retrospective)
24/02845/FULL
2022 Approved
Re-organisation of visitor infrastructure; erection of new visitor reception building; in…
22/03704/FULL
2023 Approved
Retrospective - resurfacing works to part of the path and replacement fencing to the sout…
23/00045/FULL
2022 Approved
EIA Screening Opinion: Re-organisation of visitor infrastructure, Erection of visitor rec…
23/00130/ENVSCR
2017 Approved
Retrospective - Advertisement - Board No.1 (Entrance): Wooden post and cross rail to supp…
17/03095/ADV
Within ~100m

Nearby activity

2017 Approved
Scotney Castle New House Hastings Road Lamberhurst Tunbridge Wells Kent TN3 8JN
Listed Building Consent - Proposed removal of existing door and screen and provision of n…
17/01920/LBC
Tunbridge Wells
Planning Authority Score
8.7/10
Excellent
#13 of 296 councils
Relevant to this application:
Householder decisions

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%).

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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