CROSSWAYS Smugglers Way, Fairlight, Hastings, East Sussex, TN35 4DG Data via plota.co.uk

Approved RR/2025/1481/P
Extensions & alterations
Council
Rother 2.5/10
Date received
week of 25 Aug 2025
Decision date
week of 5 Jan 2026
Postcode
TN35 4DG

Description

Infill extension with changes to existing fenestration and internal alterations. Data via plota.co.uk

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Planning committee

Decided by Rother Planning Committee on 11 Dec 2025.

Approved unanimously

As officers recommended.

  • Officers advised granting permission because the proposal complied with development plan policies.
  • The report says the extension would have no significant surface-water impact and was unlikely to affect great crested newts.
  • The committee unanimously granted permission, subject to conditions, with seven votes in favour.
Read how the committee decided The proposed extension, officers’ assessment, committee debate, vote and planning conditions. Includes the meeting recording

Source: Plota analysis of Rother's committee minutes of 11 Dec 2025.

Site constraints 6

2 Article 4 directions
East Sussex (Fairlight, Pett and Icklesham) Direction, 1965 · East Sussex (Battle Rural District) Direction, 1959. Named permitted development rights are withdrawn here.
An Article 4 direction withdraws particular permitted development rights, so work that would normally need no application needs one here. Not every council has published its directions.
Habitat network: Network Enhancement Zone 2
Where habitat is joined up enough to work as a network. Context, not a constraint on its own.
Special protection area about 276 m away: Dungeness, Romney Marsh and Rye Bay
Work nearby can need a habitats assessment.
Harm to a protected site is only accepted where there is no alternative and an overriding public interest.
SSSI about 190 m away: Hastings Cliffs to Pett Beach SSSI
Natural England may need consulting, depending on what is proposed.
Sites of special scientific interest are the best wildlife and geological sites in the country. Development likely to harm one is rarely permitted.
Also on the record
National landscape about 190 m away: High Weald; Inside the Fairlight built-up area.
Not affected
Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · Not green belt · No scheduled monument at the site

Checked on 20 September 2026. The pin for this application is the centre of its postcode rather than the building, so distances to nearby designations are measured from the postcode and can be out by the width of the postcode area. 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.

Sales history 3

Last sold for £425,000 in June 2018. Detached house, freehold.

29 June 2018£425,000
7 March 2011£320,000
17 October 2006£325,000

Sale prices from HM Land Registry's price paid record, matched to this application by its address.

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Rother
Planning Authority Score
2.5/10
Poor
#252 of 296 councils
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Rother decision statistics
Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026
89%
Overall approval rate
Above avg (87%) #141 of 296
95%
Householder approved
Above avg (90%) #88 of 296
25%
Decided in 8 weeks
Below avg (63%) #292 of 296
71%
Extended time limit
Above avg (41%) #287 of 296
72%
Minor dwellings approved
127 decided (1-9 homes)
89%
Major dwellings approved
9 decided (10+ homes)
86%
Change of use approved
36 decided
739
Total decisions
84 refused in the year to March 2026
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