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The Chequers Inn, The Square, Forest Row, RH18 5ES

WD/2024/2445/LBListed Building ConsentApproved

Approved on 6 February 2025

Council decision: ApprovalDelegated (officer decision)

Proposal

ALTERATIONS AND REPAIRS TO 17TH CENTURY CHIMNEY STACK DUE TO DAMAGE CAUSED BY CHIMNEY SWEEP.

Received
23 October 2024
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Forest Row
  1. Received23 Oct
  2. Validated23 Oct
  3. Consult.6 Dec
  4. Target6 Feb
  5. Decided6 Feb

Decided in 106 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a heritage application at THE CHEQUERS INN, THE SQUARE, FOREST ROW, RH18 5ES. Wealden has handled 842 applications of this type. This one was decided in 106 days, 7 weeks longer than Wealden's typical decision time. The site is in the Forest Row conservation area, with 5 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 5ES
Application type
Listed Building Consent
Scale / size
Medium
Parish
Forest Row

Planning application dates

Date validated
23 October 2024
Consultation expiry
6 December 2024
Consultation start
12 November 2024
Consultation end
6 December 2024
Target decision date
6 February 2025
Committee meeting
5 February 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent address
9 Duchess Drive Duchess Drive Seaford BN25 2XL

Planning decision

Statutory period
106 days

Publicity

Advertisement expiry
6 December 2024
Site notice start
12 November 2024
Site notice end
3 December 2024

Additional information

UPRN
100062487980
Documents
20

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

  • Conservation area: Forest Row Conservation Area
  • Listed building: Grade II: Chequers InnOn or next to this site
  • 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 (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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