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2 Chapel Cottages, Hartfield Road, Forest Row, RH18 5BF

WD/2025/0810/LDPLawful Development - Proposed UseApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 16 May 2025

Council decision: Planning Permission RequiredDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

LOFT CONVERSION INCLUDING THE INSTALLATION OF TWO ROOF WINDOWS INTO THE PITCHED ROOF OF THE FRONT ELEVATION AND A THIRD AT THE REAR

Received
26 March 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Forest Row
  1. Received26 Mar
  2. Validated27 Mar
  3. Consult.
  4. Target22 May
  5. Decided16 May

Decided in 50 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for a loft conversion at 2 CHAPEL COTTAGES, HARTFIELD ROAD, FOREST ROW, RH18 5BF. Wealden has handled 1,019 applications of this type. This one was decided in 51 days, 5 days quicker than Wealden's typical decision time. The site is in 1 listed building nearby. There are no previous applications recorded 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.

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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Application details

Postcode
RH18 5BF
Application type
Lawful Development - Proposed Use
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Forest Row

Planning application dates

Date validated
27 March 2025
Target decision date
22 May 2025
Committee meeting
16 May 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Mr Jon Wallace 8 Ellison Grove Kings Hill ME19 4SQ

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

UPRN
10033417371
Documents
16

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • 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 (21)

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, 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.

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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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