Land Off Station Road (Opposite Marling House), Wadhurst, TN5 6RT Data via plota.co.uk

WD/2025/1582/F - Full Refused

Proposal

Proposed self build 4 bed detached house, double garage with annexe space above, landscaping and associated works. Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

✓
Received
30 Jun 2025
✓
Validated
21 Jul 2025
✗
Refused
20 Oct 2026
Appeal
Not lodged

Refused on 20 Oct 2026 · Committee · Last checked 22 Oct 2026

Planning committee

Deferred by Wealden Minors Planning Committee on 9 Sept 2026.

Deferred

  • Officers advised granting permission, finding the design, landscape impact, access and other planning matters acceptable.
  • The parish council objected, and five objections raised concerns including access, design, glazing, ecology and the water main.
  • The chair agreed to defer the item, which was not considered on its planning merits.
Read how the committee decided The proposal, site, officer recommendation, objections and committee deferral. Includes the meeting recording

Source: Plota analysis of Wealden's committee minutes of 9 Sept 2026.

Documents 96

Consultation & comments 34

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Site constraints 5

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.
Habitat network: Network Enhancement Zone 2
Where habitat is joined up enough to work as a network. Context, not a constraint on its own.
Also on the record
Inside the Wadhurst built-up area; Priority habitat about 11 m away: No main habitat but additional habitats present; Natural England's Provisional ALC map (1:250,000, 1970s) had this area as grade 4, but it predates the buildings here and the current map does not class it as farmland.
Not affected
Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · Not green belt · No scheduled monument at the site

Checked on 15 October 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.

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Important details

Council
Wealden
Application type
Full
Postcode
TN5 6RT
Received
30 Jun 2025
Validated
21 Jul 2025
Ward
Frant & Wadhurst
Parish
Wadhurst
Case officer
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Target decision
21 Oct 2025
Decision
Refusal
Decision date
20 Oct 2026
Decision level
Committee
Applicant
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How this decision compares

Decided in 456 days from validation, 401 days slower than Wealden's median of 55 for full applications. Refused, as 14% of full applications here are.

65%decided within 8 weeks
86%approved
1,002decided in the last year

Plota live figures for full applications decided by Wealden in the last twelve months, from validation. Wealden decision record →

Consultation & key dates

Consultation
12 Aug 2025
Comments by
3 Mar 2026
Site or press notice
12 Aug 2025
Wealden
Planning Authority Score
4.2/10
Below average
#188 of 296 councils
Relevant to this application:
Householder decisions

Wealden ranks #132 out of 296 councils for householder decision speed. Householder applications are slightly less likely to be approved here (88%) than the national average (90%).

These figures are council-wide context, not a prediction for this application. View full council performance
Wealden decision statistics
Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026
84%
Overall approval rate
Below avg (87%) #231 of 296
88%
Householder approved
Below avg (90%) #227 of 296
69%
Decided in 8 weeks
Above avg (63%) #132 of 296
40%
Extended time limit
Below avg (41%) #156 of 296
66%
Minor dwellings approved
170 decided (1-9 homes)
78%
Major dwellings approved
32 decided (10+ homes)
74%
Change of use approved
82 decided
1,361
Total decisions
220 refused in the year to March 2026