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Land Opposite Chilsham Green Farm, Chilsham Lane, BN27 4QQ

WD/2025/0221/FFullRefused

Refused on 14 May 2025

Council decision: RefusalDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

NEW SELF BUILD DWELLING AND CAR PORT, INCLUDING CHANGE OF USE FROM AGRICULTURAL TO RESIDENTIAL LAND, AND TEMPORARY SITING OF A MOBILE HOME DURING CONSTRUCTION.

Received
31 January 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Horam & Punnetts Town
  1. Received31 Jan
  2. Validated26 Feb
  3. Consult.8 May
  4. Target20 May
  5. Decided14 May

Decided in 77 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at LAND OPPOSITE CHILSHAM GREEN FARM, CHILSHAM LANE, BN27 4QQ. Wealden has handled 5,916 applications of this type. This one was decided in 103 days, 7 weeks longer than Wealden's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 124 applications across Horam & Punnetts Town. We hold 1,587 applications in total for the BN27 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
BN27 4QQ
Application type
Full
Scale / size
Medium
Parish
Herstmonceux

Planning application dates

Date validated
26 February 2025
Consultation expiry
8 May 2025
Consultation start
12 March 2025
Consultation end
8 May 2025
Target decision date
20 May 2025
Committee meeting
14 May 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent address
15 Clarks Meadow Shepton Mallet Somerset BA4 4FD

Planning decision

Statutory period
83 days

Publicity

Advertisement expiry
11 April 2025
Site notice start
12 March 2025

Additional information

Documents
33

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • National Landscape (AONB): High Weald
  • Ancient woodland: Calvesfield ShawPart of the site
  • 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 (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.

Source: Wealden

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