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Moss Cottage, Kidds Hill, Hartfield, TN7 4ES

WD/2025/2275/FRFull - RetrospectiveApproved
Full

Approved on 13 February 2026

Council decision: ApprovalDelegated (officer decision)2 conditions

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

RETROSPECTIVE APPLICATION FOR THE INSTALLATION OF SOLAR PANELS ON AGRICULTURAL LAND.

Received
2 October 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Hartfield
  1. Received2 Oct
  2. Validated3 Oct
  3. Consult.2 Feb
  4. Target13 Feb
  5. Decided13 Feb

Decided in 133 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at MOSS COTTAGE, KIDDS HILL, HARTFIELD, TN7 4ES. Wealden has handled 904 applications of this type. This one was decided in 134 days, 11 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 97 applications across Hartfield. We hold 793 applications in total for the TN7 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
TN7 4ES
Application type
Full - Retrospective
Scale / size
Medium
Parish
Hartfield

Planning application dates

Date validated
3 October 2025
Consultation expiry
2 February 2026
Consultation start
28 October 2025
Consultation end
2 February 2026
Target decision date
13 February 2026
Committee meeting
12 February 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Downlands Blackboys Road Framfield East Sussex TN22 5PN

Planning decision

Statutory period
133 days

Publicity

Advertisement expiry
28 November 2025
Site notice start
28 October 2025

Additional information

UPRN
100060123320
Documents
27

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Flood zone 3: High probability (rivers and sea)Part of the site
  • Listed building: Grade II: Moss CottagesOn this site
  • National Landscape (AONB): High Weald

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, 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, 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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