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16 Brightling Road, Polegate, BN26 5DB

WD/2021/2339/FFullApproved

Approved on 9 December 2021

Council decision: ApprovalDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

PROPOSED GROUND FLOOR SIDE AND REAR EXTENSION, PROPOSED FRONT PORCH, LOFT CONVERSION WITH ROOF EXTENSION AND DORMERS WITH ALTERATIONS AND MINOR AMENDMENTS TO APPROVED SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION

Received
7 September 2021
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Polegate South & Willingdon Watermill
  1. Received7 Sep
  2. Validated7 Sep
  3. Consult.22 Oct
  4. Target14 Dec
  5. Decided9 Dec

Decided in 93 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a loft conversion at 16 BRIGHTLING ROAD, POLEGATE, BN26 5DB. Wealden has handled 5,916 applications of this type. This one was decided in 93 days, 5 weeks longer than Wealden's typical decision time. There have been 3 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 15 applications across Polegate South & Willingdon Watermill. We hold 896 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 5DB
Application type
Full
Scale / size
Medium
Parish
Polegate

Planning application dates

Date validated
7 September 2021
Consultation expiry
22 October 2021
Consultation start
28 September 2021
Consultation end
22 October 2021
Target decision date
14 December 2021
Committee meeting
8 December 2021

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Pump House Yard The Green Sedlescombe Battle East Sussex TN33 0QA

Planning decision

Statutory period
98 days

Publicity

Site notice start
28 September 2021
Site notice end
22 October 2021

Additional information

UPRN
100060131239
Documents
14

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Flood zone 3: High probability (rivers and sea)Part of the site

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

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© 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.

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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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