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Land Adjacent To The Brook Coombe Hill Road East Grinstead West Sussex RH19 4LZ

DM/25/0413Permission in PrincipleRefused
Outline / PiP

Refused on 10 April 2025

Council decision: RefusalDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Construction of a new residential dwelling

Received
17 February 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Ashurst Wood And East Grinstead South
  1. Received17 Feb
  2. Validated25 Feb
  3. Consult.
  4. Target1 Apr
  5. Decided10 Apr

Decided in 44 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an outline application at Land Adjacent To The Brook Coombe Hill Road East Grinstead West Sussex RH19 4LZ. Mid Sussex has handled 485 applications of this type. This one was decided in 52 days, 3 days longer than Mid Sussex's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 52 applications across Ashurst Wood And East Grinstead South. We hold 842 applications in total for the RH19 postcode area.

90% of outline 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
RH19 4LZ
Application type
Permission in Principle
Scale / size
Small
Parish
East Grinstead

Planning application dates

Date validated
25 February 2025
Target decision date
1 April 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Lewis And Co Planning 2 Port Hall Road Brighton BN1 5PD

Planning decision

Statutory period
35 days

Appeal history

3367543
Dismissed
Type: Planning AppealProcedure: Written RepresentationsDecision: 8 October 2025Dev Type: Minor DwellingsReason: Refusal

Additional information

Documents
21

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • National Landscape (AONB): High Weald
  • Ancient woodland: Coombe Hill ShawPart of 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 (20)

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, 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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