Land at Sharnfold Farm, Hailsham Road, Stone Cross, BN24 5BU Data via plota.co.uk

WD/2025/1738/MAO - Major Application - Outline Approved

Proposal

Outline planning application (all matters reserved except access) for the provision of up to 120 dwellings (including affordable homes), associated open space and infrastructure, together with demolition of redundant livestock shed. Data via plota.co.uk

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View original council record ↗Last checked 17 Oct 2026, 17:36

Application progress

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Received

21 Jul 2025

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Validated

12 Aug 2025

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Approved

13 Oct 2026

Approved on 13 Oct 2026 · Committee · Last checked 17 Oct 2026

Planning committee

Decided by Wealden Majors Planning Committee on 26 Feb 2026.

Approved

As officers recommended.

Officers advised approval because housing, affordable homes and infrastructure benefits outweighed the identified harms.
Objections concerned infrastructure, traffic, farmland, wildlife, drainage, pollution, housing need and the location.
Members voted to grant permission, subject to conditions, informatives and a Section 106 agreement.

Read how the committee decided The proposal, site history, officers’ assessment, objections, public speaking, committee decision and approval requirements. Includes the meeting recording

Source: Plota analysis of Wealden's committee minutes of 26 Feb 2026.

Documents 94

Consultation & comments 33

Site constraints 3

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.

Public footpath about 21 m away

Matters where it crosses or adjoins the site: obstructing a path without a diversion order is an offence, and work cannot start until the order is confirmed.

Compiled from highway authority data, not the legal definitive map. A few authorities have not published, so no path shown is not proof there is none.

Habitat network: Network Expansion Zone

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 16 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: Major Application - Outline
Postcode: BN24 5BU
Received: 21 Jul 2025
Validated: 12 Aug 2025
Ward: Stone Cross
Parish: Westham
Case officer: Show
Target decision: 16 Oct 2026
Decision: Approval
Decision date: 13 Oct 2026
Decision level: Committee
Applicant: Show
Agent: KLW Ltd

How this decision compares

Decided in 427 days from validation, 370 days slower than Wealden's median of 57 for outline applications. Approved, as 33% of outline applications here are.

This one427d

Council57d

UK67d

48%decided within 8 weeks

33%approved

27decided in the last year

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

Consultation & key dates

Consultation: 22 Aug 2025
Comments by: 6 Jan 2026
Site or press notice: 22 Aug 2025

Wealden

Planning Authority Score

4.2/10

Below average

#188 of 296 councils

Relevant to this application:

Major dwellings

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