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29 And 30 Hartfield Road, Forest Row, RH18 5DY

WD/2023/2306/LDBLawful Development - Proposed Use - Listed BuildingApproved
Listed building consent

Approved on 4 December 2023

Council decision: Issue Certificate (Listed Building)Delegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

TO REPLACE AS NECESSARY ALL ROTTEN CLAPBOARD AND FINISHING AS EXISTING, IT WILL BE A LIKE FOR LIKE REPLACEMENT WITH NO ALTERATIONS, USING SOFTWOOD WITH A BEADED MOULDING DETAIL (COPYING THE DESIGN AND MATERIALS AS CURRENT CLAPBOARD). SOME OF THE REPLACEMENT BOARDS ON THE FRONT OF THE PROPERTY MAY RUN INTO 30 HARTFIELD ROAD, AS THE TWO PROPERTIES SHARE THE SAME FRONTAGE.

Received
14 September 2023
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Forest Row
  1. Received14 Sep
  2. Validated18 Oct
  3. Consult.1 Dec
  4. Target29 Nov
  5. Decided4 Dec

Decided in 47 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a heritage application at 29 AND 30 HARTFIELD ROAD, FOREST ROW, RH18 5DY. Wealden has handled 842 applications of this type. This one was decided in 81 days, 4 weeks longer than Wealden's typical decision time. The site is in the Forest Row conservation area, with 2 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 38 applications across Forest Row. We hold 300 applications in total for the RH18 postcode area.

84% of heritage 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
RH18 5DY
Application type
Lawful Development - Proposed Use - Listed Building
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Forest Row

Planning application dates

Date validated
18 October 2023
Consultation expiry
1 December 2023
Consultation start
26 October 2023
Consultation end
1 December 2023
Target decision date
29 November 2023
Committee meeting
4 December 2023

Applicant and agent

Agent address
29 Hartfield Road Forest Row East Sussex RH18 5DY

Planning decision

Statutory period
42 days

Publicity

Advertisement expiry
1 December 2023
Site notice start
26 October 2023

Additional information

Documents
11

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Flood zone 2: Medium probability (rivers and sea)Part of the site
  • Conservation area: Forest Row Conservation Area
  • Listed building: Grade II: 29 and 30, Hartfield RoadOn or next to this site
  • National Landscape (AONB): High Weald

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 (19)

flood storage areas, 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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