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71A Hartfield Road, Forest Row, RH18 5BZ

WD/2024/0895/FFullApproved

Approved on 21 May 2024

Council decision: ApprovalDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

CONVERSION OF GARAGE TO HABITABLE ROOM INCLUDING REPLACE GARAGE DOOR WITH WINDOW AND DOOR AND NEW FLAT ROOF

Received
12 April 2024
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Forest Row
  1. Received12 Apr
  2. Validated15 Apr
  3. Consult.17 May
  4. Target10 Jun
  5. Decided21 May

Decided in 36 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a garage at 71A HARTFIELD ROAD, FOREST ROW, RH18 5BZ. Wealden has handled 5,916 applications of this type. This one was decided in 39 days, 2 weeks quicker than Wealden's typical decision time. 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.

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
RH18 5BZ
Application type
Full
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Forest Row

Planning application dates

Date validated
15 April 2024
Consultation expiry
17 May 2024
Consultation start
25 April 2024
Consultation end
17 May 2024
Target decision date
10 June 2024
Committee meeting
21 May 2024

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Chepstow Chapel Lane Forest Row RH18 5BU

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Site notice start
25 April 2024
Site notice end
17 May 2024

Additional information

UPRN
100060114988
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
  • 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

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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.

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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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