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Land West Of Styles Lane And South Of High Street, Wadhurst TN5 6DZ

WD/2022/0391/MAJMajor Application - FullRefused
Full

Refused on 31 March 2023

Council decision: RefusalDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

CONSTRUCTION OF 18 NO. NEW DWELLINGS (INCLUDING 6 NO. AFFORDABLE DWELLINGS) WITH ASSOCIATED HARD AND SOFT LANDSCAPING.

Received
16 February 2022
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Frant & Wadhurst
  1. Received16 Feb
  2. Validated20 Jun
  3. Consult.14 Feb
  4. Target31 Mar
  5. Decided31 Mar

Decided in 284 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application at LAND WEST OF STYLES LANE AND SOUTH OF HIGH STREET, WADHURST TN5 6DZ. Wealden has handled 5,916 applications of this type. This one was decided in 408 days, 50 weeks longer than Wealden's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 127 applications across Frant & Wadhurst. We hold 1,451 applications in total for the TN5 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
TN5 6DZ
Application type
Major Application - Full
Scale / size
Large
Number of dwellings
18
Parish
Wadhurst

Planning application dates

Date validated
20 June 2022
Consultation expiry
14 February 2023
Consultation start
6 July 2022
Consultation end
14 February 2023
Target decision date
31 March 2023
Committee meeting
30 March 2023

Applicant and agent

Agent address
The Meadows School House Lane Horsmonden Tonbridge Kent TN12 8BW

Planning decision

Statutory period
284 days

Publicity

Advertisement expiry
29 July 2022
Site notice start
6 July 2022
Site notice end
27 July 2022

Additional information

Documents
150

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Wadhurst Conservation AreaNext to the site
  • Registered park and garden: Wadhurst CastlePart of the site
  • 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 (19)

flood storage areas, listed buildings, green belt, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, 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: Wealden

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