Sea Road, High Street - Multiple Planning Applications

ROTHER DISTRICT COUNCIL
NOTICE OF APPLICATIONS FOR PERMISSION
PLANNING (LISTED BUILDINGS & CONSERVATION
AREAS) ACT 1990
TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING (DEVELOPMENT
MANAGEMENT PROCEDURE) (ENGLAND)
ORDER 2015 ARTICLE 15

1. Bexhill Town Centre Conservation Area. Application to determine if prior
approval is required for the change of use to convert the existing lower ground floor into self-contained flat. Maitreya Buddhist Centre, 13 Sea Road, Bexhill. RR/2026/0296/PN3.
2. Winchelsea Conservation Area. Erection of single storey side extension ,
including removal of existing side extension and alterations to existing single garage. Hiham Plat, Hiham Green, Winchelsea. RR/2026/0181/HOU
3. Outline application with all matters reserved except access for the erection of up to 12 dwellings and construction of access to serve the site. Village Hall – Land north of Churchill Farm, The Street, Sedlescombe. RR/2025/1583/P.
4. Change of use of a Grade II listed building with internal alterations to convert commercial offices to one bedroom holiday let. The Old Bank, Main Street, Northiam. RR/2025/1949/FULL and RR/2026/0343/LBC
5. Winchelsea Conservation Area. Replacement of modern sheet roof covering on outbuilding with natural slate, removal of composite slate tiles to garage roof and replacement with plain clay tiles, alterations to existing and modern garage to provide 1no. double door access (rather than 2no single doors) including removal of central pier, construction of new wall to enclose front paved area to house and formation of 2no pedestrian accesses in existing stone garden walls including new gates. Cleveland House, Rookery lane, Winchelsea, Icklesham. RR/2026/0134/HOU and RR/2026/0135/LBC.
6. Rye Conservation Area. Change of use of lower ground (rear), ground (rear), first and second floors from care home (Class C2) to hotel (Class C1) to create 13no. hotel rooms. Sub-division of retail unit to create hotel lobby and retail unit (Class E). Minor internal reconfigurations. Minor alterations to fenestration. 15 High Street, Rye. RR/2026/0260/FULL and RR/2026/0262/LBC
7. Creation of a vent to the outside rear wall of the 20th century kitchen extension to Evens, for the purpose of installing a new gas boiler. Evens, Rectory Lane, Winchelsea. RR/2026/0103/LBC
8. Affects the setting of a listed building. Installation of two electric vehicle
charging stations and feeder pillar and associated underground cabling.
Existing visitor car park to National Trust Bodiam Castle, Castle Hill, Bodiam. RR/2026/0031/FULL.
9. Partial change of use: first floor converted from office to residential. Rear room of ground floor converted from shop to residential. Demolition of modern single storey rear extension, replacement with garden room, reinstatement of back door. Internal alterations. 111 High Street, Rye. RR/2026/0101/FULL and RR/2026/0102/LBC.
10. Proposed removal of the existing conservatory and erection of a replacement single storey extension. Little Domons Cottage, Higham Lane, Northiam. RR/2026/0268/HOU and RR/2026/0269/LBC

Notice is hereby given that application has been made to Rother District Council for Planning Permission in respect of 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9 and 10 above and Listed Building Consent in respect of 4, 5, 6, 7, 9 and 10 above.

These applications can be viewed on the planning website at

www.rother.gov.uk/planning

or alternatively via the public access computers at the Battle Library, Market Square, Battle, or at Rye Library, 30A High Street, Rye.

Comments on these applications may be made on-line at

www.rother.gov.uk/planning

or by email to

planning@rother.gov.uk

or in writing to the Head of Service – Strategy & Planning, Town Hall, Bexhill, TN39 3JX during the period of twenty-one days beginning with the date of
this notice. No acknowledgement will be sent or correspondence entered into. Please note any representations received will become public documents and will also be published on the internet. Requests for confidentiality cannot be accepted.

Details of the opportunity for public speaking at the Planning Committee can be found at

www.rother.gov.uk/speakingatplanningcommittee

Dated: 27 March 2026
Mike Hughes
Head of Planning