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Public Access for Planning

View details of planning applications, pre-application advice and enforcement complaints online. You can follow the progress of planning applications, view documentation (including plans), make a comment, search a weekly list of applications and decisions, view historic applications and property details including maps.

Conditions of use

Copyright Notice - Plans, drawing and material submitted to the Council are protected by the Copyright Acts (Section 47, 1988 Act). You may only use material that is downloaded and/or printed for consultation purposes, to compare current applications with previous schemes and to check whether developments have been completed in accordance with approved plans. Further copies must not be made without the prior permission of the copyright owner.

Please ensure you have read and agree to the conditions of use and web click licence before using PublicAccess. By using the links below you agree to accept these conditions.

Any comments on applications submitted to Tunbridge Wells Borough Council will remain in the public domain and can be viewed by other members of the public.

Information contained on this site may be incomplete and must not be used as a substitute for carrying out a formal Land Charge Search.

Public Access Quick Links - Finding a Planning Application

You can search for planning applications, submitted plans, decision notices and other documents in a number of ways:

Application Search: Search for a specific application by various criteria and combinations - application number, dates, decision, appeal, agents name, etc.  Please note to search using an application number do not include the 'TW/' at the beginning of the reference (e.g. to search on TW/07/01234/FUL you only need to input 07/01234)

Property Search: Search for application by postcode or street from the property search option.

Weekly List: Shows all valid applications received or decided per week for the last 8 weeks.

Map Search: An interactive map that allows you to zoom into an area of interest and view details of any related planning applications.

Special Interest: Any applications received within the last eight weeks that are of general of specific interest to the public.

Enforcement Search: Search for enforcement complaints received by us.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR PUBLIC ACCESS USERS

Public Access may not be available between 10.00pm and 8.00am to allow for essential maintenance.

  • Please note that this facility only works fully with MS Internet Explorer  (IE) 5.5 and above and other browsers may not display the "Associated Documents" that you may wish to see.
  • If you are a Mozilla Firefox user there is an add-on that can be downloaded to open pages in IE (http://ietab.mozdev.org/)
  • Users of other browsers may have problems viewing associated documents and maps.
  • If you are new to Public Access or are having problems please refer to our list of frequently asked questions