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Church Farm and Land, Church Road, Paddock Wood, Kent, TN12 6HD
Planning appeal 3303522 at Church Farm and Land, Church Road, Paddock Wood, Kent, TN12 6HD (Tunbridge Wells Borough Council) was dismissed on 27 September 2023 by Inspector Simpson L, by written representations. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: Whether Conditions 8 and 9 can be discharged, with regard to the timing clause set out under each condition.
Hybrid Application: Outline (Access not reserved) - Residential development of up to 300 dwellings including 105 affordable dwellings and associated highways, landscaping, allotments, flood mitigation works including attenuation basins and open space; Full Application - Change of use of land to country open space
- Authority
- Tunbridge Wells Borough Council
- Appeal type
- major · Planning Appeal
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- residential · Major dwellings
- Inspector
- Simpson L
- Postcode
- TN12 6HD
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- Whether Conditions 8 and 9 can be discharged, with regard to the timing clause set out under each condition
What decided it
The development had commenced and dwellings had been occupied prior to submission of the details required by Conditions 8 and 9, making it impossible to discharge conditions that expressly required approval before commencement and before occupation respectively.
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