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Mill Wood Barn, Downoak Farm Main Road, Westfield, TN35 4SL

RR/2025/1870/PIPPermission in PrincipleApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved

Council decision: Approved with Conditions

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

Proposal

Permission in Principle application for the conversion and redevelopment of an existing storage barn to create 1 no. dwelling

Received
13 October 2025
  1. Received13 Oct
  2. Validated
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided

About this application

This is an outline application at Mill Wood Barn, Downoak Farm Main Road, Westfield, TN35 4SL. Rother has handled 121 applications of this type. It has been with the council since 13 October 2025 and is still awaiting a decision. The site is in a conservation area, with 1 listed building nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. We hold 902 applications in total for the TN35 postcode area.

85% of outline applications at Rother District Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 10 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
TN35 4SL
Application type
Permission in Principle
Parish
Westfield

Planning application dates

Validated
13 October 2025

Planning decision

Decision
Approved with Conditions

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)
Also checked, none recorded (23)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders, 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: Rother

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