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The Cottage, Ashdown Place, Lewes Road, Forest Row RH18 5LP

WD/2025/1935/LDPLawful Development - Proposed UseApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 28 October 2025

Council decision: Planning Permission Not RequiredDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

RE-TILE EXISTING PITCH ROOF. FIT SOLAR PANELS ON REAR ASPECT OF ROOF (INTEGRATED)

Received
12 August 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Forest Row
  1. Received12 Aug
  2. Validated2 Sep
  3. Consult.
  4. Target28 Oct
  5. Decided28 Oct

Decided in 56 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for a solar installation at THE COTTAGE, ASHDOWN PLACE, LEWES ROAD, FOREST ROW RH18 5LP. Wealden has handled 1,019 applications of this type. This one was decided in 77 days, 3 weeks longer than Wealden's typical decision time. 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 5LP
Application type
Lawful Development - Proposed Use
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Forest Row

Planning application dates

Date validated
2 September 2025
Target decision date
28 October 2025
Committee meeting
27 October 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent address
The Cottage Ashdown Place Lewes Road Forest Row RH18 5LP

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 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
  • SSSI: Ashdown Forest SSSIPart of the site
  • Special Area of Conservation: Ashdown ForestPart of the site
  • Special Protection Area: Ashdown ForestPart 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 (18)

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, 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.

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© 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.

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Planning history at this site

1 other application at this property, newest first.

  1. 2026
    12 Jan

    WORKS TO BE CARRIED OUT TO OAK TREE - T5

    ApprovedTree with Preservation OrderTM/2026/0007/TPO

Source: Wealden

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