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Joinery, Church Lane, Laughton, BN8 6AH

WD/2026/0070/LDELawful Development - Existing UseApproved
Lawful development certificate

Approved on 20 March 2026

Council decision: Issue CertificateDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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This information is subject to Crown copyright and database rights 2026 and is reproduced with the permission of HM Land Registry. The polygons (including the associated geometry, namely x, y co-ordinates) are subject to Crown copyright and database rights 2026 Ordnance Survey AC0000851063. Conditions of use.

Proposal

USE OF LAND AND BUILDING/S AS A JOINERY WORKSHOP AND ASSOCIATED YARD.

Received
13 January 2026
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Arlington
  1. Received13 Jan
  2. Validated23 Jan
  3. Consult.
  4. Target20 Mar
  5. Decided20 Mar

Decided in 56 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at JOINERY, CHURCH LANE, LAUGHTON, BN8 6AH. Wealden has handled 904 applications of this type. This one was decided in 66 days, 10 days longer than Wealden's typical decision time. The site is in 2 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 89 applications across Arlington. We hold 1,970 applications in total for the BN8 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
BN8 6AH
Application type
Lawful Development - Existing Use
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Laughton

Planning application dates

Date validated
23 January 2026
Target decision date
20 March 2026
Committee meeting
20 March 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Heron House Laughton Road Ringmer East Sussex BN8 5UT

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Documents
13

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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