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Land Adjoining Highlands Oast, Church Street, Old Heathfield, TN21 9AJ

WD/2023/0743/FFullApproved

Approved on 12 July 2023

Council decision: ApprovalDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

INSTALLATION OF A SOLAR PV SYSTEM COMPRISING 24 NO. GROUND MOUNTED PANELS.

Received
17 March 2023
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Horam & Punnetts Town
  1. Received17 Mar
  2. Validated31 May
  3. Consult.6 Jul
  4. Target26 Jul
  5. Decided12 Jul

Decided in 42 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a solar installation at LAND ADJOINING HIGHLANDS OAST, CHURCH STREET, OLD HEATHFIELD, TN21 9AJ. Wealden has handled 5,916 applications of this type. This one was decided in 117 days, 9 weeks longer than Wealden's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 124 applications across Horam & Punnetts Town. We hold 957 applications in total for the TN21 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
TN21 9AJ
Application type
Full
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Heathfield & Waldron

Planning application dates

Date validated
31 May 2023
Consultation expiry
6 July 2023
Consultation start
15 June 2023
Consultation end
6 July 2023
Target decision date
26 July 2023
Committee meeting
11 July 2023

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Highlands Oast Church Street Old Heathfield East Sussex TN21 9AJ

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Site notice start
15 June 2023
Site notice end
6 July 2023

Additional information

UPRN
10033408330
Documents
11

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • National Landscape (AONB): High Weald
  • Ancient woodland: St Dunstan's Wood/ Furnace WoodPart of the site
  • 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 parks and gardens, registered battlefields, Heritage at Risk entries, nutrient neutrality catchments, national parks, SSSIs, Special Areas of Conservation, Special Protection Areas, Ramsar sites, 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.

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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: Wealden

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