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Piccadilly Wood Colwood Lane Bolney Haywards Heath West Sussex RH17 5QQ

DM/25/1328Lawful Development Certificate -ExistingRefused
Lawful development certificate

Refused on 16 July 2025

Council decision: RefusalDelegated (officer decision)

Proposal

Application for a Certificate of Lawful Existing Use in respect of the continued use of land as a recreational cross-country driving course for 4-wheel drive vehicles

Received
21 May 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Cuckfield, Bolney And Ansty
  1. Received21 May
  2. Validated23 May
  3. Consult.
  4. Target18 Jul
  5. Decided16 Jul

Decided in 54 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at Piccadilly Wood Colwood Lane Bolney Haywards Heath West Sussex RH17 5QQ. 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. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 136 applications across Cuckfield, Bolney And Ansty. 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 5QQ
Application type
Lawful Development Certificate -Existing
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Bolney

Planning application dates

Date validated
23 May 2025
Target decision date
18 July 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Batcheller Monkhouse 1 London Road Tunbridge Wells TN1 1DH

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14034966
Documents
40

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

  • 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

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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