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Cress Farm, 20 Lewes Road, Ridgewood, Uckfield, TN22 5SN

WD/2026/0481/PIPPermission in PrincipleRefused
Outline / PiP

Refused on 12 May 2026

Council decision: RefusalDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

DEMOLITION OF THE EXISTING BUILDING ON SITE AND THE ERECTION OF A MINIMUM OF 6 AND A MAXIMUM OF 6 DWELLINGHOUSES

Received
5 March 2026
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Uckfield Ridgewood & Little Horsted
  1. Received5 Mar
  2. Validated16 Mar
  3. Consult.16 Apr
  4. Target21 Apr
  5. Decided12 May

Decided in 57 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for demolition at CRESS FARM, 20 LEWES ROAD, RIDGEWOOD, UCKFIELD, TN22 5SN. Wealden has handled 1,019 applications of this type. This one was decided in 68 days, 12 days longer than Wealden's typical decision time. The site is in 1 listed building nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 34 applications across Uckfield Ridgewood & Little Horsted. We hold 2,467 applications in total for the TN22 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
TN22 5SN
Application type
Permission in Principle
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Uckfield

Planning application dates

Date validated
16 March 2026
Consultation expiry
16 April 2026
Consultation start
31 March 2026
Consultation end
16 April 2026
Target decision date
21 April 2026
Committee meeting
11 May 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Mr Michael Simpson Ashfold House Horsham Road Haywards Heath West Sussex RH17 6DT

Planning decision

Statutory period
36 days

Publicity

Site notice start
31 March 2026

Additional information

Documents
11

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 (21)

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, 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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