Holden Court 35 Hollingdean Road Brighton BN2 4QY
Refused on 3 December 2025
Delegated (officer decision)
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Proposal
Certificate of lawfulness for proposed change of use from existing Purpose-built Student Housing (Sui Generis), to flexible use as Purpose-built Student Housing and Co-living use (Sui Generis).
- Received
- 8 October 2025
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Ward
- Moulsecoomb & Bevendean
- ReceivedReceived8 Oct
- ValidatedValidated8 Oct
- Consult.Consultation
- TargetTarget Date3 Dec
- DecidedDecided3 Dec
Decided in 56 days (council typically 63)
About this application
This is an outline application for a change of use at Holden Court 35 Hollingdean Road Brighton BN2 4QY. Brighton and Hove has handled 522 applications of this type. This one was decided in 56 days, 7 days quicker than Brighton and Hove's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 10 applications across Moulsecoomb & Bevendean. We hold 2,608 applications in total for the BN2 postcode area.
93% of outline 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
- BN2 4QY
- Application type
- Lawful Development Certificate Proposed
- Scale / size
- Small
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 8 October 2025
- Consultation expiry
- 17 November 2025
- Target decision date
- 3 December 2025
Applicant and agent
- Agent
- Ben Murphy
- Agent address
- Build Studios 203 Westminster Bridge Road London SE1 7FR
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Publicity
- Last advertised
- 27 October 2025
- Advertisement expiry
- 17 November 2025
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Brownfield land register: Richmond House, D'Aubigney Road, Brighton, BN2 3RLRegister site at or near this address
- 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, 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 and heritage coasts.
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: Brighton and Hove
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