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The Chapel, The Drive, Hellingly, BN27 4ER

WD/2025/1374/FFullWithdrawn

Withdrawn on 18 November 2025

Delegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

PROPOSED CONVERSION OF THE CHAPEL TO RESIDENTIAL USE (8 NO. DWELLINGS) WITH ASSOCIATED FACILITIES AND OFF-ROAD PARKING.

Received
4 June 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Hellingly
  1. Received4 Jun
  2. Validated13 Oct
  3. Consult.21 Nov
  4. Target8 Dec
  5. Decided18 Nov

Decided in 36 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application at THE CHAPEL, THE DRIVE, HELLINGLY, BN27 4ER. Wealden has handled 5,916 applications of this type. It was withdrawn 167 days after it was submitted, before a decision was made. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 80 applications across Hellingly. 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 4ER
Application type
Full
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Hellingly

Planning application dates

Date validated
13 October 2025
Consultation expiry
21 November 2025
Consultation start
31 October 2025
Consultation end
21 November 2025
Target decision date
8 December 2025
Committee meeting
17 November 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent address
19 Willingdon Park Drive Eastbourne East Sussex BN22 0BS

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Site notice start
31 October 2025

Additional information

Documents
30

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Ancient woodland: Park 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 (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, National Landscapes, 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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