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Swallow Business Park, Diamond Drive, Lower Dicker, Hailsham, BN27 4EL

WD/2019/0873/MAOMajor Application - OutlineApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 1 April 2021

Council decision: ApprovalDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

OUTLINE APPLICATION FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF A NEW BUSINESS PARK, PROVIDING FOR UP TO 15,000M2 OF GROSS INTERNAL AREA FOR B1 (B AND C), B2 WITH ANCILLARY STORAGE AND OFFICE USE.

Received
18 April 2019
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Hellingly
  1. Received18 Apr
  2. Validated22 May
  3. Consult.20 Dec
  4. Target7 Apr
  5. Decided1 Apr

Decided in 680 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application at SWALLOW BUSINESS PARK, DIAMOND DRIVE, LOWER DICKER, HAILSHAM, BN27 4EL. Wealden has handled 1,019 applications of this type. This one was decided in 714 days, 94 weeks longer than Wealden's typical decision time. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 80 applications across Hellingly. We hold 1,585 applications in total for the BN27 postcode area.

90% of outline 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
BN27 4EL
Application type
Major Application - Outline
Scale / size
Medium
Parish
Hellingly

Planning application dates

Date validated
22 May 2019
Consultation expiry
20 December 2023
Consultation start
30 May 2019
Consultation end
20 December 2023
Neighbour consultation end
20 June 2019
Target decision date
7 April 2021
Committee meeting
1 April 2021

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Oakhurst Studio Horam Heathfield East Sussex TN21 0LJ

Planning decision

Statutory period
686 days

Publicity

Advertisement expiry
5 July 2019
Site notice start
10 June 2019
Site notice end
1 July 2019

Additional information

Documents
70

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • 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.

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: Wealden

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