Former Ashdown House School, Hartfield Road, Forest Row, RH18 5JY Data via plota.co.uk

WD/2026/0097/POD - Application for Approval of Details required by Legal Agreement Approved
Admin / procedural

Proposal

Discharge of schedule 4(1) of the section 106 agreement dated 27 august 2025 attached to planning permission (residential use and partial redevelopment of the Former Ashdown House School, including 1) partial demolition of existing accretions, and extension, alteration and conversion of Ashdown House to residential use (total 6 no. units); 2) demolition and partial demolition, extension and replacement of detached free-standing buildings for residential use (total 16 no. units); 3) erection of 14 no. dwellinghouses; 4) retention, refurbishment and reorganisation of existing 11 no. dwellings as 9 no. dwellings. Scheme totalling 45 no. proposed residential dwellings including retained existing dwellings, along with associated hard and soft landscaping and associated works (phased development)). Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

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Received
16 Jan 2026
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Approved
30 Jan 2026

Approved on 30 Jan 2026 · Delegated · Last checked 12 Sept 2026

Documents 8

Decision & officer reports 1

PDF Decision Notice Document · 30 Jan 2026 View ↗

Plans & drawings 1

PDF Block Plan Document · 16 Jan 2026 View ↗

Other documents 6

PDF Accompanying Documents (Misc) Document · 29 Jan 2026 View ↗ PDF Planning History Document · 17 Jan 2026 View ↗ PDF Planning History Document · 17 Jan 2026 View ↗ PDF Covering Letter Document · 16 Jan 2026 View ↗ PDF Accompanying Documents (Misc) Document · 16 Jan 2026 View ↗ PDF Legal Agreement Document · 27 Aug 2025 View ↗

All documents on the council site ↗

Associated applications 12

Site constraints 4

2 listed buildings within 150 m of the postcode pin
Nearest: Ashdown House School, Grade II*, about 10 m from the postcode pin · 1 Grade II*, 1 Grade II
The site itself is not listed. Listed building consent is needed for work that affects the special interest of a listed building, inside or out, on top of planning permission. Setting can be a consideration for buildings nearby; there is no fixed radius.
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Historic England ↗
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 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 6 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
Application for Approval of Details required by Legal Agreement
Postcode
RH18 5JY
Received
16 Jan 2026
Validated
16 Jan 2026
Ward
Hartfield
Parish
Forest Row
Case officer
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Target decision
13 Mar 2026
Decision
Approval
Decision date
30 Jan 2026
Decision level
Delegated
Applicant
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Agent
Even Group Ltd
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
Source: MHCLG planning statistics · See full council rankings