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Gotwick Manor, Shepherds Grove Lane, Hammerwood, RH19 3PY

WD/2022/0021/FFullApproved

Approved on 31 March 2022

Council decision: ApprovalDelegated (officer decision)

Proposal

DISMANTLING OF EXISTING MANOR AND ERECTION OF NEW MANOR DESIGNED IN AN ARTS & CRAFTS STYLE TO PASSIVHAUS PRINCIPLES, REINSTATEMENT OF HISTORIC GARDEN LAYOUTS, CREATION OF NEW WALLED GARDEN, INSTALLATION OF SOLAR PV ARRAY AND BATTERIES, INSTALLATION OF RAINWATER HARVESTING SYSTEM, REMOVAL OF GAS TANK AND OTHER ASSOCIATED MINOR WORKS.

Received
4 January 2022
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Hartfield
  1. Received4 Jan
  2. Validated8 Feb
  3. Consult.18 Mar
  4. Target5 Apr
  5. Decided31 Mar

Decided in 51 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a solar installation at GOTWICK MANOR, SHEPHERDS GROVE LANE, HAMMERWOOD, RH19 3PY. Wealden has handled 5,916 applications of this type. This one was decided in 86 days, 4 weeks longer than Wealden's typical decision time. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 97 applications across Hartfield. We hold 842 applications in total for the RH19 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
RH19 3PY
Application type
Full
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Forest Row

Planning application dates

Date validated
8 February 2022
Consultation expiry
18 March 2022
Consultation start
25 February 2022
Consultation end
18 March 2022
Target decision date
5 April 2022
Committee meeting
30 March 2022

Applicant and agent

Agent address
The Long Barn Poplars Place Turners Hill Road Crawley Down West Sussex RH10 4HH

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Site notice start
25 February 2022
Site notice end
18 March 2022

Additional information

UPRN
10033405579
Documents
60

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 and tree preservation orders. Ask the council if these matter.

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.

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  1. 2022
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    APPLICATION FOR APPROVAL OF DETAILS RESERVED BY CONDITIONS 7 AND 13 ATTACHED TO WD/2022/0021/F

    ApprovedDischarge of conditionsWD/2022/1402/CD
  2. 2022
    4 Jan

    DISMANTLING OF EXISTING MANOR AND ERECTION OF NEW MANOR DESIGNED IN AN ARTS & CRAFTS STYLE TO PASSIVHAUS…

    This applicationApprovedFullWD/2022/0021/F

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