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Cudwells Cottage Lewes Road Scaynes Hill Haywards Heath West Sussex RH17 7NA

11/02650/LDCLawful Development Certificate -ExistingApproved
Lawful development certificate

Approved on 19 October 2011

Council decision: PermissionDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Use of Cudwells Cottage as residential dwelling without compliance with Agricultural occupancy conditions. This is an application to establish whether the development is lawful: this will be a legal decision where the planning merits of the proposed use cannot be taken into account.

Received
24 August 2011
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
High Weald
  1. Received24 Aug
  2. Validated24 Aug
  3. Consult.
  4. Target19 Oct
  5. Decided19 Oct

Decided in 56 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at Cudwells Cottage Lewes Road Scaynes Hill Haywards Heath West Sussex RH17 7NA. Mid Sussex has handled 293 applications of this type. This one was decided in 56 days, 7 days longer than Mid Sussex's typical decision time. The site is in 1 listed building nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. We hold 1,686 applications in total for the RH17 postcode area.

80% of amendment applications at Mid Sussex District Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 7 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
RH17 7NA
Application type
Lawful Development Certificate -Existing
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Lindfield Rural

Planning application dates

Date validated
24 August 2011
Consultation expiry
23 September 2011
Target decision date
19 October 2011

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Old Bank Chambers London Road Crowborough East Sussex TN6 2TT

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Advertisement expiry
23 September 2011

Additional information

Documents
11

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Ancient woodland: Costells WoodNext to the site
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

Not published by this council, so not checked: Article 4 directions. Ask the council if these matter.

Possibly incomplete for this council: tree preservation orders.

Also checked, none recorded (21)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, green belt, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, registered parks and gardens, registered battlefields, Heritage at Risk entries, nutrient neutrality catchments, national parks, National Landscapes, SSSIs, Special Areas of Conservation, Special Protection Areas, Ramsar sites, national nature reserves, local nature reserves, heritage coasts and brownfield registers.

A guide only, from official open data; it is not a planning search. Flood zones cover rivers and sea, not surface water.

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© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Flood Map for Planning, Open Government Licence v3.0.

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Planning history at this site

1 other application at this property, newest first.

  1. 2005
    11 May

    Rear of property white pvcu edwardian style conservatory erection.

    ApprovedFull Application05/01094/FUL

Source: Mid Sussex

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