Land Adjacent To Summerhill Cottages, Summerhill Lane, Polegate, BN26 6QY.

WD/2011/0624/FFullRefused

Refused on 16 June 2011

Council decision: RefusalDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

CONVERSION OF DISUSED BUILDINGS TO SINGLE DWELLINGHOUSE.

Received: 21 March 2011
Decision level: Delegated (officer decision)
Council: Wealden District Council
Ward: Hailsham South & West

ReceivedReceived21 Mar
ValidatedValidated26 Apr
Consult.Consultation25 May
TargetTarget Date
DecidedDecided16 Jun

Decided in 51 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a new dwelling at LAND ADJACENT TO SUMMERHILL COTTAGES, SUMMERHILL LANE, POLEGATE, BN26 6QY.. Wealden has handled 5,916 applications of this type. This one was decided in 87 days, 4 weeks longer than Wealden's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. We hold 895 applications in total for the BN26 postcode area.

86% of full applications at Wealden District Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode: BN26 6QY
Application type: Full
Scale / size: Small
Parish: Hailsham

Planning application dates

Date validated: 26 April 2011
Consultation expiry: 28 May 2011
Neighbour consultation end: 25 May 2011
Decision issued: 17 June 2011

Publicity

Site notice end: 28 May 2011

Additional information

Documents: 12

Site constraints

Checking the site

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Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

Not published by this council, so not checked: Article 4 directions and tree preservation orders. Ask the council if these matter.

Also checked, none recorded (22)

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, National Landscapes, 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.

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Source: Wealden

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