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The Chestnuts, The Barn, Edenbridge Road, Hartfield, TN7 4JG

WD/2025/0534/FFullApproved

Approved on 26 November 2025

Council decision: ApprovalDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

CONVERSION OF EXISTING CLASS B1 BARN TO RESIDENTIAL UNIT

Received
4 March 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Hartfield
  1. Received4 Mar
  2. Validated14 Mar
  3. Consult.30 Jul
  4. Target28 Nov
  5. Decided26 Nov

Decided in 257 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application at THE CHESTNUTS, THE BARN, EDENBRIDGE ROAD, HARTFIELD, TN7 4JG. Wealden has handled 5,916 applications of this type. This one was decided in 267 days, 30 weeks longer than Wealden's typical decision time. The site is in the Hartfield conservation area. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 97 applications across Hartfield. We hold 793 applications in total for the TN7 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
TN7 4JG
Application type
Full
Scale / size
Medium
Parish
Hartfield

Planning application dates

Date validated
14 March 2025
Consultation expiry
30 July 2025
Consultation start
8 April 2025
Consultation end
30 July 2025
Target decision date
28 November 2025
Committee meeting
26 November 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent address
2 Springhill Orchard Weirwood Forest Row RH18 5HT

Planning decision

Statutory period
259 days

Publicity

Site notice start
8 April 2025

Additional information

UPRN
10093177635
Documents
33

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Hartfield Conservation AreaPart of the 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 (20)

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, 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.

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© 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.

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Associated applications

  1. 2026
    24 Mar

    VARIATION OF CONDITION 2 OF WD/2025/0534/F

    ApprovedVariation of conditions (s73)WD/2026/0626/FA
  2. 2025
    4 Mar

    CONVERSION OF EXISTING CLASS B1 BARN TO RESIDENTIAL UNIT

    This applicationApprovedFullWD/2025/0534/F

Planning history at this site

10 other applications at this property, newest first.

  1. 2022
    2 Sep

    GARAGE TO REPLACE EXISTING APPROVED SHED

    ApprovedFullWD/2022/2305/F
  2. 2022
    29 Jun

    APPLICATION FOR APPROVAL OF DETAILS RESERVED BY CONDITION 3 ATTACHED TO WD/2021/1661/F

    ApprovedDischarge of conditionsWD/2022/1683/CD
  3. 2021
    21 Jun

    NEW ADDITIONAL SELF BUILD DWELLING

    ApprovedFullWD/2021/1661/F
  4. 2021
    11 Mar

    NEW ADDITIONAL SELF BUILD DWELLING

    WithdrawnFullWD/2021/0608/F
  5. 2020
    30 Nov

    WORK AS PER SCHEDULE SUBJECT TO REGULATIONS DESIGNATED (HARTFIELD) CONSERVATION AREA SEPTEMBER 1983/MARCH

    ApprovedTrees in Conservation AreaTM/2020/0365/TCA
  6. 2020
    13 Jul

    POTTING, MAINTENANCE AND STORAGE SHED

    ApprovedFullWD/2020/1380/F

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