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DM/26/1693 - Agricultural Prior Not. - Road Decided

Proposal

Proposed new road. The proposed development is specifically designed to support and facilitate the agricultural use of the land. Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

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Received

10 Jul 2026

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Prior Approval Is Not Required

7 Aug 2026

Prior Approval Is Not Required on 7 Aug 2026 · Delegated Decision · Last checked 8 Aug 2026

Documents

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Site constraints 3

High Weald National Landscape

Great weight to conserving the landscape; major development restricted.

Previously an area of outstanding natural beauty, which is still the designation in law. Since 2023 authorities must seek to further its purpose, not merely have regard to it.

Agricultural land, grade 3a

Best and most versatile land (grades 1, 2 and 3a). Predicted from the national soil map. The older provisional map, which most planning maps still show, had this area as grade 4. The predicted grade is Defra's current estimate; only a site survey settles it.

Where development of farmland is needed, policy prefers poorer land over the best and most versatile (grades 1, 2 and 3a). Three sources: Natural England's post-1988 field surveys, which are definitive where they exist; the Defra predictive map for England (2025) and the Welsh Government predictive map, modelled from the soil map with 3a and 3b split; and the 1970s provisional map, which planners and other services still show, coarser and with grade 3 undivided. Where the provisional and predicted grades disagree, treat the predicted grade as the current estimate and expect an application to carry its own survey.

Habitat network: Network Enhancement Zone 2

Where habitat is joined up enough to work as a network. Context, not a constraint on its own.

Not affected

Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · Not green belt · No scheduled monument at the site

Checked on 11 September 2026. Historic England, the Environment Agency, Natural England and council datasets, Open Government Licence. A boundary can run through a site and the council holds the definitive record: confirm with the council before relying on this.

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Important details

Council: Mid Sussex
Application type: Agricultural Prior Not. - Road
Received: 10 Jul 2026
Validated: 10 Jul 2026
Ward: Ashurst Wood And East Grinstead South
Parish: Ashurst Wood
Case officer: Show
Target decision: 7 Aug 2026
Decision: Prior Approval Is Not Required
Decision date: 7 Aug 2026
Decision level: Delegated Decision
Applicant: Show

Public comments

No public comments yet.

Last counted 8 Aug 2026

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Consultation & key dates

Alt. reference: PP-15076037
Env. assessment: No

Mid Sussex

Planning Authority Score

4.8/10

Below average

#161 of 296 councils

Relevant to this application:

Householder decisions

Mid Sussex ranks #150 out of 296 councils for householder decision speed. Householder applications are slightly more likely to be approved here (93%) than the national average (90%).

These figures are council-wide context, not a prediction for this application. View full council performance

Mid Sussex decision statistics

Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026

92%

Overall approval rate

Above avg (87%) #87 of 296

93%

Householder approved

Above avg (90%) #132 of 296

64%

Decided in 8 weeks

Above avg (63%) #150 of 296

44%

Extended time limit

Above avg (41%) #179 of 296

80%

Minor dwellings approved

83 decided (1-9 homes)

89%

Major dwellings approved

27 decided (10+ homes)

82%

Change of use approved

33 decided

1,115

Total decisions

93 refused in the year to March 2026