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Land Adjoining Penlan, Knowle Lane, Halland, BN8 6PR

WD/2024/2140/FFullRefused

Refused on 11 August 2026

Council decision: RefusalTBC1 reason for refusal

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Proposal

CHANGE OF USE FROM AGRICULTURAL LAND TO A CARAVAN SITE FOR A SINGLE CARAVAN.

Received
17 September 2024
Decision level
TBC
Ward
Chiddingly, East Hoathly & Waldron
  1. Received17 Sep
  2. Validated4 Nov
  3. Consult.9 Dec
  4. Target29 Jan
  5. Decided11 Aug

Decided in 280 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at LAND ADJOINING PENLAN, KNOWLE LANE, HALLAND, BN8 6PR. Wealden has handled 5,916 applications of this type. This one was decided in 693 days, 91 weeks longer than Wealden's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 102 applications across Chiddingly, East Hoathly & Waldron. We hold 1,970 applications in total for the BN8 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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Why it was refused

  1. The proposed development/change of use of land would result in the creation of a caravan site within the rural area, conflicting with saved policy DC22. Furthermore, the proposal does not demonstrate there would be a functional need for a dwelling on site, conflicting with saved policy DC2 and neither does it adequately demonstrate reasonably necessity for the purposes of agriculture undertaken at the site, either now or in the future as a non- residential building under saved policy DC3. The proposal would therefore represent unjustified development/change of use of land in the countryside in an unsustainable location. Thereby conflicting with saved policies GD2, EN1, DC2, DC3 & DC22 of the Wealden Local Plan 1998, Spatial Planning Objectives SPO1 and SPO13 and Policy WCS14 of the adopted Core Strategy Local Plan 2013, coupled with paragraphs 135, 139 and 187 of the National Planning Policy Framework.

From the council's decision notice.

Application details

Postcode
BN8 6PR
Application type
Full
Scale / size
Medium
Parish
East Hoathly with Halland

Planning application dates

Date validated
4 November 2025
Consultation expiry
9 December 2025
Consultation start
18 November 2025
Consultation end
9 December 2025
Target decision date
29 January 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Caburn Golden Cross Hailsham East Sussex BN27 4AN

Planning decision

Statutory period
86 days

Publicity

Site notice start
18 November 2025

Additional information

Documents
17

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.

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Source: Wealden

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