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Wildwood, Rystwood Road, Forest Row, RH18 5LX

WD/2025/0118/FFullApproved

Approved on 21 March 2025

Council decision: ApprovalDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

NEW DECK / TERRACE WITH ROOF AND PLANTER EXTENDING INTO THE BACK GARDEN (WEST) OF THE HOUSE. NEW SMALL SHELTER (PORCH) TO FRONT DOOR.

Received
20 January 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Forest Row
  1. Received20 Jan
  2. Validated28 Jan
  3. Consult.5 Mar
  4. Target25 Mar
  5. Decided21 Mar

Decided in 52 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a porch at WILDWOOD, RYSTWOOD ROAD, FOREST ROW, RH18 5LX. Wealden has handled 5,916 applications of this type. This one was decided in 60 days, 4 days longer than Wealden's typical decision time. There have been 3 other applications 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 5LX
Application type
Full
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Forest Row

Planning application dates

Date validated
28 January 2025
Consultation expiry
5 March 2025
Consultation start
12 February 2025
Consultation end
5 March 2025
Target decision date
25 March 2025
Committee meeting
20 March 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent address
18 Greenway Lane Bath BA2 4LW

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Site notice start
12 February 2025

Additional information

UPRN
100060115568
Documents
15

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Flood zone 3: High probability (rivers and sea)Part of the site
  • National Landscape (AONB): High Weald
  • Ancient woodland: Rist Wood complexPart of the site

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 (20)

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, 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.

Planning history at this site

11 other applications at this property, newest first.

  1. 2025
    10 Feb

    REDUCE CANOPY OF 4 OAK TREES BY 2M AND THIN BY 30% WITHIN TREE PRESERVATION ORDER (FOREST ROW) NO 4, 1982

    ApprovedTree with Preservation OrderTM/2025/0037/TPO
  2. 2024
    15 Oct

    CROWN REDUCE ONE OAK TREE BACK TO PREVIOUS PRUNING POINTS. APPROXIMATELY 5M-6M BACK TO SUITABLE SECONDARY…

    ApprovedTree with Preservation OrderTM/2024/0220/TPO
  3. 2024
    13 Feb

    FELL ONE OAK TREE WITHIN TREE PRESERVATION ORDER (FOREST ROW) NO 4, 1982

    WithdrawnTree with Preservation OrderTM/2024/0037/TPO
  4. 2021
    4 Nov

    WORK TO FOUR OAK TREES WITHIN TREE PRESERVATION ORDER (FOREST ROW) NO 4, 1982

    ApprovedTree with Preservation OrderTM/2021/0329/TPO
  5. 2019
    7 Jun

    FELL 1X OAK AND REPLACE IN BETTER LOCATION WITHIN TREE PRESERVATION ORDER (FOREST ROW) NO 4,1982

    ApprovedTree with Preservation OrderTM/2019/0158/TPO
  6. 2018
    9 Oct

    REDUCE OVERALL CANOPY BY 4M AND CROWN THIN BY 30% ON 5 OAK TREES WITHIN TREE PRESERVATION ORDER (FOREST ROW)…

    ApprovedTree with Preservation OrderTM/2018/0289/TPO

Source: Wealden

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