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Bower House Barn, The Croft, Holtye Road, Hammerwood, RH19 3QE

WD/2022/1577/FFullApproved

Approved on 31 January 2023

Council decision: ApprovalDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

CHANGE OF USE FROM EXISTING ANNEXE TO SINGLE DWELLING.

Received
16 June 2022
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Hartfield
  1. Received16 Jun
  2. Validated22 Jul
  3. Consult.3 Sep
  4. Target1 Feb
  5. Decided31 Jan

Decided in 193 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for an outbuilding at BOWER HOUSE BARN, THE CROFT, HOLTYE ROAD, HAMMERWOOD, RH19 3QE. Wealden has handled 5,916 applications of this type. This one was decided in 229 days, 25 weeks longer than Wealden's typical decision time. The site is in 2 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded 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 3QE
Application type
Full
Scale / size
Medium
Parish
Forest Row

Planning application dates

Date validated
22 July 2022
Consultation expiry
3 September 2022
Consultation start
12 August 2022
Consultation end
3 September 2022
Target decision date
1 February 2023
Committee meeting
31 January 2023

Applicant and agent

Agent address
The Round Barn Gibraltar Farm Wick Street Firle BN8 6NB

Planning decision

Statutory period
194 days

Publicity

Advertisement expiry
3 September 2022
Site notice start
12 August 2022
Site notice end
3 September 2022

Additional information

UPRN
10093175585
Documents
23

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Registered park and garden: Hammerwood ParkPart 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 (20)

flood storage areas, conservation 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

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© 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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