Dog Walking Field, Burnt Oak Road, High Hurstwood, Crowborough, TN22 4AE Data via plota.co.uk

WD/2025/2297/FR - Full - Retrospective Refused

Proposal

Retrospective change of use of private estate land to a Dog Walking Field Data via plota.co.uk

View original council record ↗Last checked

Application progress

✓
Received
6 Oct 2025
✓
Validated
7 Nov 2025
✗
Refused
23 Dec 2025
✗
Appeal dismissed

Refused on 23 Dec 2025 · Delegated · Last checked 9 Oct 2026

Documents 25

All documents on the council site ↗

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: Other Priority Habitats - NEZ
Where habitat is joined up enough to work as a network. Context, not a constraint on its own.
Also on the record
Inside the High Hurstwood built-up area; Priority habitat about 19 m away: Deciduous woodland; 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 9 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.

Work with planning data?

Every application in Wealden - and every UK council - as a live feed, an API, or a bulk CSV export.

About Plota's data service

Important details

Council
Wealden
Application type
Full - Retrospective
Postcode
TN22 4AE
Received
6 Oct 2025
Validated
7 Nov 2025
Ward
Buxted
Parish
Buxted
Case officer
Show
Target decision
2 Jan 2026
Decision
Refusal
Decision date
23 Dec 2025
Decision level
Delegated
Applicant
Show
Agent
SC Planning

How this decision compares

Decided in 46 days from validation, 9 days faster 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
17 Nov 2025
Comments by
8 Dec 2025
Site or press notice
17 Nov 2025
Wealden
Planning Authority Score
4.2/10
Below average
#188 of 296 councils
Relevant to this application:
Change of use

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