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Melfort House, Wadhurst Road, Frant, TN3 9EH

WD/2024/2643/FRFull - RetrospectiveApproved
Full

Approved on 6 February 2025

Council decision: ApprovalDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

RETROSPECTIVE APPLICATION FOR ALTERATIONS TO THE ELEVATIONS OF THE GARAGE BUILDING, COMPRISING ALTERATION TO GARAGE DOORS FROM 4 SINGLE DOORS TO 2 DOUBLE DOORS; NEW RENDER FINISH ON GROUND FLOOR OF FRONT ELEVATION; REMOVAL OF FRONT JULIETTE BALCONY; REMOVAL OF DOVECOT FROM FRONT ROOFSLOPE; AMENDMENT TO WINDOWS TO FRONT AND SIDE ELEVATION; AMENDMENT TO DETAILING TO CREATE BRICK SURROUND AROUND FIRST FLOOR FRONT AND SIDE WINDOWS TO MATCH THE MAIN HOUSE; CLAY TILE HANGING TO FRONT ELEVATION; NEW DOOR AND JULIETTE BALCONY TO FIRST FLOOR ON SIDE ELEVATION;

Received
18 November 2024
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Frant & Wadhurst
  1. Received18 Nov
  2. Validated18 Nov
  3. Consult.3 Jan
  4. Target7 Feb
  5. Decided6 Feb

Decided in 80 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at MELFORT HOUSE, WADHURST ROAD, FRANT, TN3 9EH. Wealden has handled 904 applications of this type. This one was decided in 80 days, 3 weeks longer than Wealden's typical decision time. There have been 3 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 127 applications across Frant & Wadhurst. We hold 1,126 applications in total for the TN3 postcode area.

79% of amendment 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
TN3 9EH
Application type
Full - Retrospective
Scale / size
Medium
Parish
Frant

Planning application dates

Date validated
18 November 2024
Consultation expiry
3 January 2025
Consultation start
10 December 2024
Consultation end
3 January 2025
Target decision date
7 February 2025
Committee meeting
6 February 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent address
11 -13 High Street Tunbridge Wells TN1 1UL

Planning decision

Statutory period
81 days

Publicity

Site notice start
10 December 2024

Additional information

UPRN
10033407745
Documents
10

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Frant Conservation AreaNext to the site
  • National Landscape (AONB): High Weald
  • Ancient woodland: Clay's WoodPart of the site · +1 more
  • 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, 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, 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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