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Robinshaw Haywards Heath Road Balcombe Haywards Heath West Sussex RH17 6NJ

DM/24/0775Full ApplicationRefused
Full

Refused on 16 May 2024

Council decision: RefusalDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

To part demolish and extend an existing bungalow (Robin Shaw) to create a 2-storey dwelling and provision of 2no. new homes to the rear. The scheme also seeks to make provision of public access to the adjacent Upper Stumble Wood with a pedestrian path routed through the site to access the wood at the rear.

Received
22 March 2024
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Ardingly, Balcombe And Turners Hill
  1. Received22 Mar
  2. Validated22 Mar
  3. Consult.
  4. Target17 May
  5. Decided16 May

Decided in 55 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a full planning application at Robinshaw Haywards Heath Road Balcombe Haywards Heath West Sussex RH17 6NJ. Mid Sussex has handled 2,577 applications of this type. This one was decided in 55 days, 6 days longer than Mid Sussex's typical decision time. There have been 4 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 116 applications across Ardingly, Balcombe And Turners Hill. We hold 1,686 applications in total for the RH17 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
RH17 6NJ
Application type
Full Application
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Balcombe

Planning application dates

Date validated
22 March 2024
Target decision date
17 May 2024

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Lomax Design Ltd 5 Gordon Road Worthing BN11 1DB

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-12913574
Documents
58

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • National Landscape (AONB): High Weald
  • 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, 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

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© 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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