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St Nicholas Church Church Street Brighton BN1 3LJ

BH2023/03396Full PlanningApproved
Full

Approved on 6 March 2025

Planning committee

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Installation of external architectural and pedestrian lighting scheme including new and improved lighting columns with luminaire heads, luminaire spotlights, ground mounted luminaires, replacement wall mounted luminaires.

Received
22 December 2023
Decision level
Planning committee
Public comments
22
Ward
West Hill & North Laine
  1. Received22 Dec
  2. Validated18 Jan
  3. Consult.4 Dec
  4. Target14 Mar
  5. Decided6 Mar

Decided in 413 days (council typically 63)

About this application

This is a full planning application at St Nicholas Church Church Street Brighton BN1 3LJ. Brighton and Hove has handled 1,705 applications of this type. This one was decided in 440 days, 54 weeks longer than Brighton and Hove's typical decision time. The site is in the Montpelier and Clifton Hill conservation area, with 10 listed buildings nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 26 applications across West Hill & North Laine. We hold 1,684 applications in total for the BN1 postcode area.

87% of full applications at Brighton and Hove City Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 9 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
BN1 3LJ
Application type
Full Planning
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
18 January 2024
Consultation expiry
16 December 2024
Consultation start
13 November 2024
Consultation end
4 December 2024
Neighbour consultation start
19 November 2024
Neighbour consultation end
10 December 2024
Target decision date
14 March 2024
Committee meeting
5 March 2025

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Last advertised
25 November 2024
Advertisement expiry
16 December 2024
Site notice start
22 November 2024
Site notice end
13 December 2024

Additional information

Documents
52
Constraints
25

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

Not published by this council, so not checked: Article 4 directions and tree preservation orders. Ask the council if these matter.

Also checked, none recorded (20)

flood storage areas, 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.

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    22 Dec

    Installation of external architectural and pedestrian lighting scheme including new and improved lighting…

    ApprovedListed building consentFiled alongsideBH2023/03397

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