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Mount Pleasant Farm, Royal Oak Lane, High Hurstwood, Buxted, TN22 4AN

WD/2022/2739/LDELawful Development - Existing UseApproved
Lawful development certificate

Approved on 17 January 2023

Council decision: Issue CertificateDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

CERTIFICATE OF LAWFUL EXISTING USE IN RESPECT OF THE OCCUPANCY OF MOUNT PLEASANT FARM FOR A PERIOD IN EXCESS OF 10 YEARS IN BREACH OF THE AGRICULTURAL OCCUPANCY CONDITION IMPOSED BY PLANNING PERMISSION T/72/2549

Received
24 October 2022
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Buxted
  1. Received24 Oct
  2. Validated24 Oct
  3. Consult.
  4. Target17 Jan
  5. Decided17 Jan

Decided in 85 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at MOUNT PLEASANT FARM, ROYAL OAK LANE, HIGH HURSTWOOD, BUXTED, TN22 4AN. Wealden has handled 904 applications of this type. This one was decided in 85 days, 4 weeks longer than Wealden's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 43 applications across Buxted. We hold 2,467 applications in total for the TN22 postcode area.

79% of amendment 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
TN22 4AN
Application type
Lawful Development - Existing Use
Scale / size
Medium
Parish
Buxted

Planning application dates

Date validated
24 October 2022
Target decision date
17 January 2023
Committee meeting
17 January 2023

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Old Bank Chambers London Road Crowborough TN6 2TT

Planning decision

Statutory period
85 days

Additional information

UPRN
10033400331
Documents
9

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • 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.

Source: Wealden

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