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33 Oldfield Road, Lower Willingdon, BN20 9QD

WD/2023/1438/FFullRefused

Refused on 8 September 2023

Council decision: RefusalDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

AIR SOURCE HEAT PUMP BEING INSTALLED

Received
1 June 2023
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Lower Willingdon
  1. Received1 Jun
  2. Validated16 Jun
  3. Consult.28 Aug
  4. Target8 Sep
  5. Decided8 Sep

Decided in 84 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application at 33 OLDFIELD ROAD, LOWER WILLINGDON, BN20 9QD. Wealden has handled 5,916 applications of this type. This one was decided in 99 days, 6 weeks longer than Wealden's typical decision time. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 23 applications across Lower Willingdon. We hold 358 applications in total for the BN20 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
BN20 9QD
Application type
Full
Scale / size
Medium
Parish
Willingdon & Jevington

Planning application dates

Date validated
16 June 2023
Consultation expiry
28 August 2023
Consultation start
14 August 2023
Consultation end
28 August 2023
Target decision date
8 September 2023
Committee meeting
8 September 2023

Applicant and agent

Agent address
33 Oldfield Road Lower Willingdon Eastbourne East Sussex BN20 9QD

Planning decision

Statutory period
84 days

Publicity

Site notice start
14 August 2023
Site notice end
18 July 2023

Appeal

Appeal date
10 October 2023
Appeal result
Dismissed
Appeal decision date
7 February 2024

Appeal history

3331014
Dismissed
Type: Householder (HAS)Procedure: Written RepresentationsDecision: 7 February 2024Dev Type: Householder developmentsReason: Refusal

Additional information

UPRN
100060113375
Documents
20

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • 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 (22)

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, National Landscapes, 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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© 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.

Planning history at this site

1 other application at this property, newest first.

  1. 2023
    6 Apr

    AIR SOURCE HEAT PUMP

    ApprovedLawful Development - Proposed UseWD/2023/0945/LDP

Source: Wealden

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