Pembury Society Planning

Planning Applications

Members of The Pembury Society Committee monitor and scrutinise all planning applications which affect Pembury Village .

The Committee Members meet once a month, except August and December, when they consider contentious applications. Their decisions as to whether comments or objections should be sent to the Planning Services Department of the Tunbridge Wells Borough Council are decided by a majority vote.

The Planning Officer on the Pembury Society Committee monitors all planning applications affecting Pembury and also keeps detailed records of all these applications. He or she drafts all letters of objections including comments to both the Borough Council and the Planning Inspectorate.

A resume of all these decisions made by the Committee appear in a regular article called "Successes and Failures" in The Pembury Society's Newsletter "Pembury Matters".

Since the year 2004 the number of planning applications affecting Pembury, excluding submission of details following planning permission,  and the number of applications upon which The Pembury Society commented were as follows :-

Les Cook

Planning Applications in Pembury

1 January 2007 - 31 December 2007

The number of planning applications received by Tunbridge Wells Borough Council during 2007 which affected Pembury was 114.  

Details of the number of planning applications within Pembury are as follows :

  8     New housing developments

  2     Conversion of house into multiple occupation

38     Extensions and alterations to residential property

  3     Erection of garages/car-ports and provision of parking spaces

  2     New accessways

  3     Commercial developments  (i.e. shops, offices and warehousing)

  5     Agricultural land development and change of use

  2     Recreational facilities

  1     Mobile telephone masts

11     Felling, crowning, and pruning of trees subject to a Tree Preservation Order

  8     Felling, crowning and pruning of trees within the Pembury Conservation Area

  2     Control of Advertisements

15     Environmental Impact Assessments

10     Certificates of Lawful Development

  4     Pembury Hospital

Details of the decisions made on those applications are as follows :

71    Planning permissions granted  

16    Planning permissions refused  

  1    Planning permissions not required

15    Environmental Impact Assessments not required 

  4    Applications withdrawn or not proceeded with 

  7    Applications still outstanding i.e.awaiting a decision by the Borough Council

All the applications affecting Pembury were scrutinised by members of the Committee. Comments and objections, where appropriate, were then made to the Head of Planning Services Tunbridge Wells Borough Council

Last updated 03 July 2008

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