Former Edf Car Park Southdownview Road Worthing West Sussex
Approved on 20 August 2025
Council decision: Application PermittedDelegated (officer decision)
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Proposal
Change of use from a car park to a car storage yard (Use Class B8) including reconfiguration to provide additional car parking (part retrospective)
- Received
- 26 March 2025
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- Adur District Council
- Ward
- Broadwater
- ReceivedReceived26 Mar
- ValidatedValidated10 Apr
- Consult.Consultation1 May
- TargetTarget Date5 Jun
- DecidedDecided20 Aug
Decided in 132 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is a full planning application for a change of use at Former Edf Car Park Southdownview Road Worthing West Sussex. Adur and Worthing has handled 1,247 applications of this type. This one was decided in 147 days, 13 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 38 applications across Broadwater.
93% of full 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
- Application type
- Full Application
- Scale / size
- Small
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 10 April 2025
- Consultation expiry
- 8 May 2025
- Consultation start
- 10 April 2025
- Consultation end
- 1 May 2025
- Neighbour consultation start
- 14 April 2025
- Neighbour consultation end
- 8 May 2025
- Last date for comments
- 8 May 2025
- Target decision date
- 5 June 2025
- Permission expires
- 20 August 2028
Applicant and agent
- Agent
- Vail WilliamsLLP
- Agent address
- 4 Peveril Court 6-8 London Road CRAWLEY RH10 8JE
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Additional information
- Planning Portal ID
- PP-13715042
- Documents
- 20
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Brownfield land register: EDF Energy Plc, Southdownview Road, WorthingRegister site at or near this address
- Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (23)
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 and heritage coasts.
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Source: Adur and Worthing
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