Writing a DAS for a Tunbridge Wells application
A Design & Access Statement explains and justifies your proposal against the development plan. For schemes across Tunbridge Wells — Royal Tunbridge Wells, Southborough, Paddock Wood and Cranbrook and the surrounding area — that means engaging Tunbridge Wells's own adopted policies on design, character and amenity, plus the NPPF. Buildwise auto-detects site constraints (High Weald National Landscape (AONB), Metropolitan Green Belt (north of the borough), Ashdown Forest SPA/SAC and conservation areas) from your postcode and writes each section tailored to your site and project type.
Cited to Tunbridge Wells's actual adopted plan
Buildwise references Tunbridge Wells's live policies directly — for example design, amenity and character policies such as STR2 (Place Shaping and Design), EN1 (Sustainable Design), H11 (Residential Extensions, Alterations, Outbuildings, and Annexes) — quoted from the source documents and verified, never invented. As Tunbridge Wells updates its plan, Buildwise's corpus is updated with it.
- Tunbridge Wells Borough Local Plan 2020-2038 (adopted December 2025)
How it works
Address + postcode; constraints detected automatically.
Usually under 10 minutes.
Download as PDF, edit online, or send to your client under your practice logo.
Example (excerpt)
"The single-storey design and restrained ridge height directly address scale and massing, ensuring compliance with Policy STR2 (Place Shaping and Design). Generous separation to the host dwelling with no new facing windows satisfies the amenity requirements engaged by Policy EN1…"
Frequently asked questions
Required for major development and for most work in conservation areas or the High Weald National Landscape (AONB); often expected for householder schemes too. Buildwise produces one either way.
Tunbridge Wells's adopted Tunbridge Wells Borough Local Plan 2020-2038 (adopted December 2025) policies relevant to your scheme — such as STR2 (Place Shaping and Design), EN1 (Sustainable Design), H11 (Residential Extensions, Alterations, Outbuildings, and Annexes) — plus the NPPF.
Minutes, versus most of a working day by hand.
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