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Basil House (Formerly Falcon Fields), Cherry Gardens Hill, Groombridge, TN3 9NY

WD/2023/0752/LDELawful Development - Existing UseApproved
Lawful development certificate

Approved on 24 May 2023

Council decision: Issue CertificateDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

VARIOUS MINOR WORKS TO EXISTING BUILDINGS AND STRUCTURES WITHIN THE RESIDENTIAL GARDENS TO THE PROPERTY, INCLUDING RECLADDING OF BUILDINGS, CONSTRUCTION OF NEW OUTBUILDINGS (CINEMA ROOM AND HOME OFFICE), TENNIS COURT AND LANDSCAPING, AND PATHWAYS.

Received
17 March 2023
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Withyham
  1. Received17 Mar
  2. Validated30 Mar
  3. Consult.24 Apr
  4. Target25 May
  5. Decided24 May

Decided in 55 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at BASIL HOUSE (FORMERLY FALCON FIELDS), CHERRY GARDENS HILL, GROOMBRIDGE , TN3 9NY. Wealden has handled 904 applications of this type. This one was decided in 68 days, 12 days longer than Wealden's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 67 applications across Withyham. We hold 1,125 applications in total for the TN3 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
TN3 9NY
Application type
Lawful Development - Existing Use
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Withyham

Planning application dates

Date validated
30 March 2023
Consultation expiry
24 April 2023
Consultation end
24 April 2023
Target decision date
25 May 2023
Committee meeting
23 May 2023

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Greenhayes Studio 106 Hastings Road Battle East Sussex TN33 0TW

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Documents
15

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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