Birch Grove Nursing Home 1 - 3 Stanford Avenue Brighton BN1 6AD
Refused on 14 April 2025
Delegated (officer decision)
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Proposal
Application for removal of condition 17 of BH2022/00867 (minimum of 31 bedrooms used for elderly nursing care).
- Received
- 26 June 2024
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Public comments
- 3
- Ward
- Hollingdean & Fiveways
- ReceivedReceived26 Jun
- ValidatedValidated26 Jun
- Consult.Consultation30 Jul
- TargetTarget Date25 Sep
- DecidedDecided14 Apr
Decided in 292 days (council typically 63)
About this application
This is an application to remove a condition at Birch Grove Nursing Home 1 - 3 Stanford Avenue Brighton BN1 6AD. Brighton and Hove has handled 498 applications of this type. This one was decided in 292 days, 33 weeks longer than Brighton and Hove's typical decision time. The site is in the Preston Park conservation area. There have been 2 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 24 applications across Hollingdean & Fiveways. We hold 1,684 applications in total for the BN1 postcode area.
95% of conditions 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 6AD
- Application type
- Removal or Variation of Condition
- Scale / size
- Medium
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 26 June 2024
- Consultation expiry
- 9 August 2024
- Consultation start
- 9 July 2024
- Consultation end
- 30 July 2024
- Neighbour consultation start
- 10 July 2024
- Neighbour consultation end
- 31 July 2024
- Target decision date
- 25 September 2024
Applicant and agent
- Agent
- Mr Simon Bareham
- Agent address
- Lewis & Co Planning 2 Port Hall Road Brighton BN1 5PD
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 91 days
Publicity
- Last advertised
- 19 July 2024
- Advertisement expiry
- 9 August 2024
- Site notice start
- 19 July 2024
- Site notice end
- 9 August 2024
Appeal history
Additional information
- Documents
- 9
- Constraints
- 11
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Conservation area: Preston Park
- Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
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 (21)
flood storage areas, listed buildings, 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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Planning history at this site
2 other applications at this property, newest first.
- 20265 Jan
Application for Approval of Details reserved by Condition 5 (Surface Water Drainage) of application…
PendingDischarge of conditionsBH2026/00009 - 202523 Dec
Application for approval of details reserved by condition 4 (Construction Environment Management Plan (CEMP))…
PendingDischarge of conditionsBH2025/03104
Source: Brighton and Hove
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