Application for two new homes in Balcombe approved after previous plan refused
A company has been granted planning permission to build two new houses with parking spaces in Balcombe.
Matsim Properties Ltd applied to Mid Sussex District Council (MSDC), via the agent Lomax Design, to erect the four-plus bedroom dwellings near Robin Shaw in Haywards Heath Road.
The application was also to create a single-storey garage structure to an existing house at Upper Stumble.
People can view the application and documents at pa.midsussex.gov.uk/online-applications using reference DM/25/1688.
MSDC’s decision notice, dated January 9, 2026, said: “The development hereby permitted shall be begun before the expiration of three years from the date of this permission.”
The number of parking spaces at the site will increase from four to eight and the application was also for an upgraded access road that leads to the new detached properties.
The planning statement said: “This is a resubmission of a recently refused application DM/24/0775 for three new dwellings.”
It said the previous planning application was refused on May 16, 2024, and said the proposal had been changed to ‘address the issues raised at that time’.
The statement said the site is ‘sustainably located’ and would be ‘an appropriate form of development’. It added that the site is ‘surrounded by existing development on three sides’ and makes an ‘efficient, effective and well-designed’ proposal for two family homes.
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