PROW/16/1, Church Road - Near, Mountfield TN32 5LH Data via plota.co.uk

Approved RR/2025/998/A
Signs & adverts
Council
Rother 2.5/10
Date received
week of 11 Aug 2025
Decision date
week of 13 Oct 2025
Postcode
TN32 5LH

Description

Erection of post & panel free-standing sign. Data via plota.co.uk

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Planning committee

Decided by Rother Planning Committee on 9 Oct 2025.

Approved unanimously

As officers recommended.

  • Officers recommended approval because the signage was acceptable in location, scale and design without harming the area or highway safety.
  • The local Highway Authority had no objection, and the committee supported the officer’s recommendation.
  • Members unanimously granted advertisement consent, subject to conditions, by nine votes in favour.
Read how the committee decided The officers’ assessment, consultation response, committee discussion, vote and conditions. Includes the meeting recording

Source: Plota analysis of Rother's committee minutes of 9 Oct 2025.

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). Source: the Predictive Agricultural Land Classification Map (Defra and Natural England, 2025; the Welsh Government's Predictive ALC Map 2 in Wales), a model rather than a site survey. Natural England's Provisional ALC map (1:250,000, 1970s) agrees.
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 1
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 26 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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Rother
Planning Authority Score
2.5/10
Poor
#252 of 296 councils
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Householder decisions

Rother is one of the slowest councils in England for householder decisions, ranking #292 out of 296. The council extends the time limit on 71% of applications - one of the highest rates in England. Expect your application to take longer than the standard deadline. Householder applications are slightly more likely to be approved here (95%) than the national average (90%).

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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
Source: MHCLG planning statistics · See full council rankings