A kitchen making company is eyeing a move into bigger premises after landowners submitted a planning application to convert a barn.

Traditional Bespoke Furniture could move its workshop and showroom in Matfield, near Paddock Wood, to a new site in nearby Brenchley subject to council approval.

The business was launched in 2003 by craftsman Christopher Lee and Jason Avon to tailor-make luxury kitchens with a starting price of £20,000.

The pair, who complete about a dozen projects a year, would have potential to grow the business as tenants of the new premises, which is a former equine building.

The owners of the site on Mill Farm in Cryals Road want to turn the redundant site into a manufacturing space with a showroom and workshops with storage, adding timber cladding and sheet roofing.

It would offer Mr Lee and Mr Avon a space more suitable for their work, according to the agent Simon McKay of SJM Planning.

He said: “They are not looking to become much larger but they may benefit from cheaper rent and it’s a better space.

“At the moment they are a round hole in a square peg and this move would future proof them for the next five to 10 years.

“This will be a premises they can make their own.”

They are hoping for a decision on the application to Tunbridge Wells Borough Council by late September.

Traditional Bespoke Kitchens declined to comment.