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Postmasters 34 High Street Lindfield Haywards Heath West Sussex RH16 2HL

DM/15/2908Householder ApplicationApproved
Householder

Approved on 26 May 2017

Council decision: PermissionDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate location: the centre of the postcode, not the exact property.

Proposal

Revised description - Retrospective application for revisions to permission 14/00513/FUL relating to the erection of a timber summer house to the rear of property, construction of dwarf wall and variation to fenestration. Previously proposed fencing to front and flagpole removed from the application.

Received
13 July 2015
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Lindfield
  1. Received13 Jul
  2. Validated5 Dec
  3. Consult.
  4. Target30 Jan
  5. Decided26 May

Decided in 172 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a full planning application for an outbuilding at Postmasters 34 High Street Lindfield Haywards Heath West Sussex RH16 2HL. Mid Sussex has handled 2,577 applications of this type. This one was decided in 683 days, 91 weeks longer than Mid Sussex's typical decision time. The site is in the Lindfield conservation area, with 11 listed buildings nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 133 applications across Lindfield. We hold 995 applications in total for the RH16 postcode area.

94% of full 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
RH16 2HL
Application type
Householder Application
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Lindfield

Planning application dates

Date validated
5 December 2016
Consultation expiry
3 March 2017
Target decision date
30 January 2017
Committee meeting
7 April 2019
Permission expires
7 April 2019

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Advertisement expiry
3 March 2017

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-04300683
Documents
55

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

  • Conservation area: Lindfield
  • Listed building: Grade II: The Toll HouseOn or next to this site · +1 more
  • 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 (20)

flood storage areas, 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, ancient woodland, 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.

Data © Crown copyright and others · sources and licences

Contains public sector information from planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG and local planning authorities), licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© Historic England 2026. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. The Historic England GIS Data contained in this material was obtained on 2026-11-03. The most publicly available up to date Historic England GIS Data can be obtained from HistoricEngland.org.uk.

© Natural England copyright. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

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

Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Source: Mid Sussex

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