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Cleavers Farm, Hammerwood, East Grinstead, RH19 3QB

WD/2023/7507/TTelecommunication DeterminationApproved

Approved on 23 November 2023

Council decision: Prior Approval Not RequiredDelegated (officer decision)

Proposal

THE REMOVAL OF AN EXISTING 19M MONOPOLE MAST AND ASSOCIATED COMPOUND, AND THE INSTALLATION OF A REPLACEMENT BASE STATION WHICH INCLUDES A 25M LATTICE SHARABLE MAST, 6 NO. ANTENNAS, 2 NO. DISHES, 7 NO. CABINETS, ETC, AND ANCILLARY DEVELOPMENT THERETO. THIS IS NEEDED AS THE EXISTING MAST CANNOT SUPPORT THE REQUIRED EQUIPMENT TO IMPROVE CONNECTIVITY.

Received
3 October 2023
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Hartfield
  1. Received3 Oct
  2. Validated3 Oct
  3. Consult.10 Nov
  4. Target28 Nov
  5. Decided23 Nov

Decided in 51 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a telecoms application at CLEAVERS FARM, HAMMERWOOD, EAST GRINSTEAD, RH19 3QB. Wealden has handled 27 applications of this type. This one was decided in 51 days, 5 days quicker than Wealden's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 97 applications across Hartfield. We hold 842 applications in total for the RH19 postcode area.

88% of all 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
RH19 3QB
Application type
Telecommunication Determination
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Forest Row

Planning application dates

Date validated
3 October 2023
Consultation expiry
10 November 2023
Consultation start
20 October 2023
Consultation end
10 November 2023
Target decision date
28 November 2023
Committee meeting
23 November 2023

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Unit 4 Century Building Tower Street Liverpool L3 4BJ

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Site notice start
20 October 2023
Site notice end
10 November 2023

Additional information

Documents
11

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

  • 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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