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Dunly Wood, Mayfield Road, Cross In Hand, Heathfield, TN21 0UE

WD/2025/1801/FRFull - RetrospectiveRefused
Full

Refused on 30 July 2026

Council decision: RefusalDelegated (officer decision)1 reason for refusal

Proposal

RETROSPECTIVE APPLICATION FOR CHANGE OF USE OF THE EXISTING FORESTRY/AGRICULTURAL BUILDING AND YARD AREA TO A 'SUI GENERIS' MIXED USE OF FORESTRY, AGRICULTURE AND CONTRACTORS’ YARD, INCLUDING MEZZANINE FLOOR FOR OFFICE USE AND CHANGE OF USE OF FORMER MOBILE OFFICE BUILDING TO PARTS STORE. PROPOSED CREATION OF AN IMPERMEABLE VEHICULAR, MACHINERY AND EQUIPMENT WASH DOWN AREA WITH DRAINAGE TO A WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT. Amended Plans/ Reports received.

Received
28 July 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Framfield & Cross-in-Hand
  1. Received28 Jul
  2. Validated29 Jul
  3. Consult.8 Apr
  4. Target23 Sep
  5. Decided30 Jul

Decided in 366 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at DUNLY WOOD, MAYFIELD ROAD, CROSS IN HAND, HEATHFIELD, TN21 0UE. Wealden has handled 904 applications of this type. This one was decided in 367 days, 44 weeks longer than Wealden's typical decision time. There have been 2 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 65 applications across Framfield & Cross-in-Hand. We hold 957 applications in total for the TN21 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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Why it was refused

  1. There is insufficient information to demonstrate the development would prevent soluble contaminants from being discharged from the site impacting upon water quality and wider ecological networks. Therefore, the development would be in conflict with saved Policy CS2 of the Local Plan, Spatial Planning Objective SPO2 and Policies WCS12 and WCS14 of the Core Strategy, coupled with paragraphs 182, 187(e) and 192 of the NPPF.

From the council's decision notice.

Application details

Postcode
TN21 0UE
Application type
Full - Retrospective
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Heathfield & Waldron

Planning application dates

Date validated
29 July 2025
Consultation expiry
8 April 2026
Consultation start
19 August 2025
Consultation end
8 April 2026
Target decision date
23 September 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Eclipse Park Eclipse House Sittingbourne Road Maidstone ME14 3EN

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Site notice start
19 August 2025

Additional information

Documents
37

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

  • National Landscape (AONB): High Weald
  • Ancient woodland: Coalend Wood/Buttons Wood/Dunly Wood
  • 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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