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Rushers Cross Farm Cottage, Rushers Cross, Mayfield, TN20 6PX

WD/2025/1120/LDELawful Development - Existing UseApproved
Lawful development certificate

Approved on 11 July 2025

Council decision: Issue CertificateDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

OCCUPATION OF DWELLING WITHOUT COMPLYING WITH AGRICULTURAL OCCUPANCY CONDITION ATTACHED TO T/1951/9958, T/1969/755T/F AND WD/1971/234/T/F

Received
1 May 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Frant & Wadhurst
  1. Received1 May
  2. Validated15 May
  3. Consult.
  4. Target11 Jul
  5. Decided11 Jul

Decided in 57 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at RUSHERS CROSS FARM COTTAGE, RUSHERS CROSS, MAYFIELD, TN20 6PX. Wealden has handled 904 applications of this type. This one was decided in 71 days, 2 weeks longer 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 127 applications across Frant & Wadhurst. We hold 713 applications in total for the TN20 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
TN20 6PX
Application type
Lawful Development - Existing Use
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Mayfield & Five Ashes

Planning application dates

Date validated
15 May 2025
Target decision date
11 July 2025
Committee meeting
11 July 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent address
The Barn Rushers Cross Farm Rushers Cross Mayfield TN20 6PX

Planning decision

Statutory period
57 days

Additional information

Documents
7

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: Cinderhill WoodPart 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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