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Ivy House, Mark Cross, Rotherfield, TN6 3PJ

WD/2026/0421/LBRListed Building Consent RetrospectiveRefused
Listed building consent

Refused on 8 May 2026

Council decision: Refusal1 reason for refusal

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Proposal

RETROSPECTIVE APPROVAL OF UPVC FRAMED WINDOWS, INSTALLED AS AN EMERGENCY MEASURE DUE TO STORM DAMANGE TO THE REAR OF THE HOUSE ON THE UPPER FLOOR.

Received
25 February 2026
Ward
Withyham
  1. Received25 Feb
  2. Validated4 Mar
  3. Consult.12 Apr
  4. Target29 Apr
  5. Decided8 May

Decided in 65 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a heritage application for window replacement at IVY HOUSE, MARK CROSS, ROTHERFIELD, TN6 3PJ. Wealden has handled 842 applications of this type. This one was decided in 72 days, 2 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 66 applications across Withyham. We hold 593 applications in total for the TN6 postcode area.

84% of heritage 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 retrospective works proposed by this application would cause less than substantial harm to the significance of the subject property, in its capacity as a Grade II listed building. As a result, the application fails to preserve the special architectural and historic interest of the listed building and does not contribute positively to its preservation. The identified harm has been weighed against the benefits of the scheme, which are considered to be wholly private in nature. The property is already in its optimum viable use; there are no public benefits that would be realised by the proposals; and thus the identified harm cannot be outweighed. Although maintaining the building in a water-tight condition contributes towards the long-term conservation of Ivy House and there would be modest energy efficiency savings from the double-glazing, there were other, more sympathetic, ways of achieving this benefit. Accordingly, the application poses works to a listed building that would cause heritage harm to the property with no justification. It is therefore contrary to the provisions of the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990; spatial planning objective SPO2 of the Wealden Core Strategy 2013; section 12 of the Wealden Design Guide 2008; and paragraphs 8, 135, 139, 202, 207, 213, 214, 215 and 219 of the National Planning Policy Framework.

From the council's decision notice.

Application details

Postcode
TN6 3PJ
Application type
Listed Building Consent Retrospective
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Rotherfield

Planning application dates

Date validated
4 March 2026
Consultation expiry
12 April 2026
Consultation start
18 March 2026
Consultation end
12 April 2026
Target decision date
29 April 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Ivy House Mayfield Road Mark Cross Rotherfield East Sussex TN6 3PJ

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Advertisement expiry
12 April 2026
Site notice start
18 March 2026

Additional information

Documents
7

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

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.

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© Natural England copyright. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

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