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Land North Of Buxted Road, Coopers Green, Five Ash Down, Uckfield, TN22 4AT

WD/2024/2481/MAOMajor Application - OutlineRefused
Outline / PiP

Refused on 16 April 2026

Council decision: RefusalPlanning committee1 reason for refusal

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

OUTLINE APPLICATION WITH ALL MATTERS RESERVED EXCEPT FOR ACCESS (EXCLUDING INTERNAL ESTATE ROADS) FOR THE ERECTION OF UP TO 75 RESIDENTIAL UNITS, WITH THE ASSOCIATED VEHICULAR AND PEDESTRIAN ACCESS FROM BUXTED ROAD AND ASSOCIATED INFRASTRUCTURE, LANDSCAPING, AND PUBLIC OPEN SPACE

Received
28 October 2024
Decision level
Planning committee
Ward
Buxted
  1. Received28 Oct
  2. Validated28 Oct
  3. Consult.24 Dec
  4. Target30 Mar
  5. Decided16 Apr

Decided in 535 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application at LAND NORTH OF BUXTED ROAD, COOPERS GREEN, FIVE ASH DOWN, UCKFIELD, TN22 4AT. Wealden has handled 1,019 applications of this type. This one was decided in 535 days, 68 weeks longer than Wealden's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 43 applications across Buxted. We hold 2,467 applications in total for the TN22 postcode area.

90% of outline 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 will result in less than substantial harm to the significance of adjacent heritage assets, due to noticeable changes within their settings through the encroachment of built form which will have a cumulative adverse impact. The cumulative harm to the setting of these heritage assets would not be outweighed by the public benefits resulting from the proposal. As such the proposal would be contrary to Section 66 of the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Area) Act 1990, Policies EN1 and EN27 of the Wealden Local Plan 1998, spatial planning objective SPO2 of the Wealden Core Strategy Local Plan 2013 and paragraphs 135 c), 202, 210 and 215 of the National Planning Policy Framework 2024.

From the council's decision notice.

Application details

Postcode
TN22 4AT
Application type
Major Application - Outline
Scale / size
Large
Number of dwellings
75
Parish
Buxted

Planning application dates

Date validated
28 October 2024
Consultation expiry
24 December 2025
Consultation start
12 November 2024
Consultation end
24 December 2025
Target decision date
30 March 2026
Committee meeting
16 April 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent address
West Suite Coles Yard Barn North Lane Clanfield PO8 0RN

Planning decision

Statutory period
518 days

Publicity

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

Additional information

Documents
105

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.

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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