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Land Rear Of 41 Norway Street Portslade BN41 1GN

BH2025/01432Lawful Development Certificate ExistingRefused
Lawful development certificate

Refused on 24 October 2025

Delegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Certificate of lawfulness for existing installation of storage container (B8).

Received
9 June 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
South Portslade
  1. Received9 Jun
  2. Validated4 Sep
  3. Consult.
  4. Target30 Oct
  5. Decided24 Oct

Decided in 50 days (council typically 63)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at Land Rear Of 41 Norway Street Portslade BN41 1GN. Brighton and Hove has handled 168 applications of this type. This one was decided in 137 days, 11 weeks longer than Brighton and Hove's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 17 applications across South Portslade. We hold 101 applications in total for the BN41 postcode area.

86% of amendment 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
BN41 1GN
Application type
Lawful Development Certificate Existing
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
4 September 2025
Consultation expiry
29 September 2025
Target decision date
30 October 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent
Mr Sonny Medcalf
Agent address
15-17 Middle Street Brighton BN1 1AL

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Last advertised
8 September 2025
Advertisement expiry
29 September 2025

Additional information

Comments
0
Documents
5
Constraints
6

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • 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 (22)

flood storage areas, conservation 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.

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: Brighton and Hove

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