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154 Old Fort Road Shoreham-by-sea West Sussex BN43 5HL

AWDM/1246/25Householder ApplicationApproved
Householder

Approved on 26 November 2025

Council decision: Application PermittedDelegated (officer decision)6 conditions

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Existing first floor timber balcony to be replaced and enlarged along with the addition of a new staircase providing access to the garden. Single storey frontage outbuilding to include garden room, shower room and storage. Swimming pool, sauna building and outdoor kitchen, garden storage building and bin store. Fenestration alterations and new zinc roof with rooflights.

Received
2 October 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Marine Adur
Agent
ABIR Architects Ltd
  1. Received2 Oct
  2. Validated3 Oct
  3. Consult.25 Nov
  4. Target28 Nov
  5. Decided26 Nov

Decided in 54 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for an outbuilding at 154 Old Fort Road Shoreham-by-sea West Sussex BN43 5HL. Adur and Worthing has handled 1,247 applications of this type. This one was decided in 55 days. The site is in a conservation area. There have been 2 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 36 applications across Marine Adur. We hold 756 applications in total for the BN43 postcode area.

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

Postcode
BN43 5HL
Application type
Householder Application
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
3 October 2025
Consultation expiry
25 November 2025
Consultation start
4 November 2025
Consultation end
25 November 2025
Neighbour consultation start
9 October 2025
Neighbour consultation end
27 October 2025
Last date for comments
25 November 2025
Target decision date
28 November 2025
Permission expires
26 November 2028

Applicant and agent

Applicant
Private applicant
Agent
ABIR Architects Ltd
Agent address
Unit 1, Beta House St Johns Road Hove BN3 2FX United Kingdom

Planning decision

Case officer
Marie O'Keeffe
Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14345216
Documents
18

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Flood zone 3: High 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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