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Hill House Cottage Handcross Road Staplefield Haywards Heath West Sussex RH17 6EE

DM/25/3254Discharge of BNG ConditionApproved
Discharge / amendments

Approved on 23 January 2026

Council decision: PermissionDelegated (officer decision)

Proposal

Discharge of BNG condition 1 relating to planning application DM/25/2271

Received
22 December 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Ardingly, Balcombe And Turners Hill
  1. Received22 Dec
  2. Validated22 Dec
  3. Consult.
  4. Target16 Feb
  5. Decided23 Jan

Decided in 32 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an application to discharge conditions at Hill House Cottage Handcross Road Staplefield Haywards Heath West Sussex RH17 6EE. Mid Sussex has handled 762 applications of this type. This one was decided in 32 days, 2 weeks quicker than Mid Sussex's typical decision time. There has been 1 other application 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.

97% of conditions 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 6EE
Application type
Discharge of BNG Condition
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Ansty And Staplefield

Planning application dates

Date validated
22 December 2025
Target decision date
16 February 2026

Applicant and agent

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

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Documents
11

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.

Associated applications

  1. 2025
    22 Dec

    Discharge of condition 5 relating to planning application DM/25/2271

    ApprovedDischarge of conditionsFiled alongsideDM/25/3253
  2. 2025
    22 Dec

    Discharge of BNG condition 1 relating to planning application DM/25/2271

    This applicationApprovedDischarge of conditionsDM/25/3254

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