FOI release

Planning and land charges

Case reference FOI2025/01116

Received 31 October 2025

Published 11 November 2025

Request

1. Number of planning applications received between 1st April 2024 and 31st March 2025? 2. No. of FTE staff within administration team supporting Development Management Function (not including planning policy)? 3. Does the administration function supporting development management include validation and support the Conservation and Enforcement Team? 4. No. of LLC1 land change searches between 1st April 2024 and 31st March 2025? 5. No. of FTE staff within administration team supporting Land Charges Function? 6. Has the Land Charges Function migrated to Land Registry? 7. Has the Land Charges Function migrated to Land Registry? 8. Which department do Land Charges and Street Name and Numbering sit within? 9. Salary banding levels of administration and land charges staff Are you requesting info for a certain time period? Yes Start: 01/04/2024 End: 31/03/2025

Response

1. Number of planning applications received between 1st April 2024 and 31st March 2025? All planning etc applications are available online here, and which can be filtered for the timeframe requested:- https://twbcpa.midkent.gov.uk/online-applications/search.do?action=advanced

2. No. of FTE staff within administration team supporting Development Management Function (not including planning policy)? 7FTE

3. Does the administration function supporting development management include validation and support the Conservation and Enforcement Team? Yes

4. No. of LLC1 land change searches between 1st April 2024 and 31st March 2025?

*New system went live 18/03/2025 so we can only provide information from this date to current date

121 TW searches,

5. No. of FTE staff within administration team supporting Land Charges Function? 4.1FTE

6. Has the Land Charges Function migrated to Land Registry?The authority has not migrated to HMLR's centralised digital service. We are in the process of doing so. Estimated migration by Quarter 3 2026. [HMLR has to allocate resources for those authorities in migration stage and there is a queue].

7. Has the Land Charges Function migrated to Land Registry?

8. Which department do Land Charges and Street Name and Numbering sit within? Mid Kent Planning Support for Land Charges and GIS for Street Naming and Numbering

9. Salary banding levels of administration and land charges staff Grades 4-7

Documents

There are no documents for this release.

This is Tunbridge Wells Borough Council's response to a freedom of information (FOI) or environmental information regulations (EIR) request.