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Met Office, West End, Herstmonceux, Hailsham

WD/2025/1710/LDPLawful Development - Proposed UseApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 2 September 2025

Council decision: Planning Permission Not RequiredDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

REPLACEMENT OF EXISTING AUTOSONDE (WEATHER BALLOON LAUNCH SYSTEM) WITH MODERN EQUIVALENT, INCLUDING RELOCATION OF ASSOCIATED HELIUM GAS CYLINDERS AND RE-ALIGNMENT OF PART OF THE EXISTING FENCES LOCATED ON SITE

Received
16 July 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Herstmonceux & Pevensey Levels
  1. Received16 Jul
  2. Validated17 Jul
  3. Consult.
  4. Target11 Sep
  5. Decided2 Sep

Decided in 47 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application at MET OFFICE, WEST END, HERSTMONCEUX, HAILSHAM. Wealden has handled 1,019 applications of this type. This one was decided in 48 days, 8 days quicker 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 Herstmonceux & Pevensey Levels.

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

Application type
Lawful Development - Proposed Use
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Herstmonceux

Planning application dates

Date validated
17 July 2025
Target decision date
11 September 2025
Committee meeting
2 September 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Fitzroy Road Exeter Devon EX1 3PB

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Documents
11

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • 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 (22)

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, 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

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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