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29 Lancing Close Lancing West Sussex BN15 9NJ

AWDM/0055/26Certificate Proposed Lawful Use/DevApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 23 April 2026

Council decision: Application PermittedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Application for Certificate of Lawfulness for Proposed change of use of a Class C3 (a) dwellinghouse to a Class C2 children's home for a maximum of 3 children with up to four carers, two of whom will sleep overnight, working on a rota basis.

Received
16 January 2026
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Manor
  1. Received16 Jan
  2. Validated9 Feb
  3. Consult.
  4. Target6 Apr
  5. Decided23 Apr

Decided in 73 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for a change of use at 29 Lancing Close Lancing West Sussex BN15 9NJ. Adur and Worthing has handled 349 applications of this type. This one was decided in 97 days, 6 weeks longer than Adur and Worthing's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 36 applications across Manor. We hold 262 applications in total for the BN15 postcode area.

96% of outline applications at Adur District Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
BN15 9NJ
Application type
Certificate Proposed Lawful Use/Dev
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Lancing Parish Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
9 February 2026
Target decision date
6 April 2026
Permission expires
23 April 2026

Applicant and agent

Applicant
Private applicant

Planning decision

Case officer
Eve Hearsey
Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14628016
Documents
9

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (24)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders, green belt, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, registered parks and gardens, registered battlefields, Heritage at Risk entries, nutrient neutrality catchments, national parks, National Landscapes, SSSIs, Special Areas of Conservation, Special Protection Areas, Ramsar sites, ancient woodland, national nature reserves, local nature reserves, heritage coasts and brownfield registers.

A guide only, from official open data; it is not a planning search. Flood zones cover rivers and sea, not surface water.

Data © Crown copyright and others · sources and licences

Contains public sector information from planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG and local planning authorities), licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© Historic England 2026. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. The Historic England GIS Data contained in this material was obtained on 2026-11-03. The most publicly available up to date Historic England GIS Data can be obtained from HistoricEngland.org.uk.

© Natural England copyright. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Flood Map for Planning, Open Government Licence v3.0.

Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Source: Adur and Worthing

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