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Byerly, Bell Lane, Fletching, TN22 3YB

WD/2025/2726/FFullRefused

Refused on 5 February 2026

Council decision: RefusalDelegated (officer decision)2 reasons for refusal

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

DETACHED GARAGE WITH TWO DORMERS AND TWO VELUX WINDOWS TO FACILITATE HOME OFFICE ON FIRST FLOOR, WITH EXTERNAL STAIRCASE ACCESS

Received
2 December 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Danehill & Fletching
  1. Received2 Dec
  2. Validated11 Dec
  3. Consult.15 Jan
  4. Target5 Feb
  5. Decided5 Feb

Decided in 56 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a garage at BYERLY, BELL LANE, FLETCHING, TN22 3YB. Wealden has handled 5,916 applications of this type. This one was decided in 65 days, 9 days longer than Wealden's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 75 applications across Danehill & Fletching. We hold 2,467 applications in total for the TN22 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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Why it was refused

  1. The proposed garage/home office building, by reason of the design, size, scale and height, would result in inappropriate and over-dominant structure that would harm and the visual amenity of the dwelling and two adjoining properties, all non-designated heritage assets falling within the High Weald National Landscape, and would therefore fail to conserve or enhance the landscape character of the High Weald National Landscape or the setting of non-designated heritage assets. The proposal would therefore conflict with requirements of Saved Policies GD2, DC19, HG10, EN6 and EN27 of the Wealden Local Plan 1998, Spatial Objectives SPO2, SPO13 and Policy WCS14 of the adopted Wealden Core Strategy Local Plan 2013, the National Planning Policy including paragraph 189 and Objectives S2 and S3 of the High Weald Management Plan.
  2. Insufficient information has been submitted to establish whether or not the location of the garage/home office building would result in harm to the mature trees adjacent to the southeastern boundary of the site. The proposal would therefore conflict with requirements of Saved Policies EN12 and EN14 of the Wealden Local Plan 1998, Spatial Objective SPO13 and Policy WCS14 of the adopted Wealden Core Strategy Local Plan 2013. 3.

From the council's decision notice.

Application details

Postcode
TN22 3YB
Application type
Full
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Fletching

Planning application dates

Date validated
11 December 2025
Consultation expiry
15 January 2026
Consultation start
22 December 2025
Consultation end
15 January 2026
Target decision date
5 February 2026
Committee meeting
4 February 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent address
40 Gladstone Road Ashtead KT21 2NS

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Site notice start
22 December 2025

Additional information

UPRN
10033402092
Documents
12

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • National Landscape (AONB): High Weald
  • 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, 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

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© 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.

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