Shop 131 Newland Road Worthing West Sussex BN11 1LB
Approved on 10 October 2025
Council decision: Approval Required and GrantedDelegated (officer decision)1 condition
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Proposal
Application for Prior Approval for Proposed Change of use of the ground floor from Class E (commercial/business/service) to provide additional floorspace for first floor flat (Use Class C3)
- Received
- 23 June 2025
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- Adur District Council
- Ward
- Central
- Agent
- Albion Planning
- ReceivedReceived23 Jun
- ValidatedValidated25 Jun
- Consult.Consultation9 Oct
- TargetTarget Date20 Aug
- DecidedDecided10 Oct
Decided in 107 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is an outline application for a change of use at Shop 131 Newland Road Worthing West Sussex BN11 1LB. Adur and Worthing has handled 349 applications of this type. This one was decided in 109 days, 8 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 164 applications across Central. We hold 636 applications in total for the BN11 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
- BN11 1LB
- Application type
- PA COU Comm, Bus and Service to Dwelling
- Scale / size
- Small
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 25 June 2025
- Consultation expiry
- 9 October 2025
- Consultation start
- 25 September 2025
- Consultation end
- 9 October 2025
- Neighbour consultation start
- 27 June 2025
- Neighbour consultation end
- 18 July 2025
- Last date for comments
- 9 October 2025
- Target decision date
- 20 August 2025
- Permission expires
- 10 October 2030
Applicant and agent
- Applicant
- Private applicant
- Agent
- Albion Planning
- Agent address
- 36 Windsor Road Worthing BN11 2LY
Planning decision
- Case officer
- Louise Prew
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Additional information
- Planning Portal ID
- PP-14108980
- Documents
- 22
Site constraints
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.
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Source: Adur and Worthing
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