Balsams Farm Watery Lane Funtington Chichester West Sussex PO18 9LE
Approved on 8 May 2025
Council decision: PERMITDelegated (officer decision)
Proposal
Existing lawful development certificate confirming the use of Balsams Bakehouse (the site) as 2 no. self-contained dwellings.
- Received
- 18 March 2025
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- Chichester District Council
- Ward
- Lavant
- ReceivedReceived18 Mar
- ValidatedValidated18 Mar
- Consult.Consultation18 Apr
- TargetTarget Date13 May
- DecidedDecided8 May
Decided in 51 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is an application to amend a permission at Balsams Farm Watery Lane Funtington Chichester West Sussex PO18 9LE. Chichester has handled 341 applications of this type. This one was decided in 51 days, 5 days quicker than Chichester's typical decision time. The site is in 1 listed building nearby. There have been 4 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 17 applications across Lavant. We hold 1,433 applications in total for the PO18 postcode area.
74% of amendment applications at Chichester District Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).
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Application details
- Postcode
- PO18 9LE
- Application type
- Existing Lawful Development
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Funtington
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 18 March 2025
- Consultation expiry
- 18 April 2025
- Consultation start
- 2 April 2025
- Neighbour consultation end
- 18 April 2025
- Last date for comments
- 23 April 2025
- Target decision date
- 13 May 2025
- Permission expires
- 8 May 2028
Applicant and agent
- Agent
- Savills
- Agent address
- Savills Runway East, York and Elder 50 New England Street, Brighton BN1 4AW United Kingdom
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Site constraints
Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.
- Nutrient neutrality catchment: Solent: Includes Chichester and Langstone Harbours SPA/Ramsar, Solent and Southampton Wat…Applies to new homes and overnight accommodation
- Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Not published by this council, so not checked: Article 4 directions. Ask the council if these matter.
Possibly incomplete for this council: tree preservation orders.
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, 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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© 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.
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© 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.
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Planning history at this site
4 other applications at this property, newest first.
- 20266 May
Discharge of condition 6 (sustainable design and construction) from Planning Permission FU/25/01201/FUL
ApprovedDischarge of conditions26/01017/DOC - 202629 Apr
Discharge of condition 13 to planning permission 25/01201/FUL
ApprovedDischarge of conditions26/00977/DOC - 202613 Mar
Discharge of condition 3 (Suds) from planning permission FU/25/01201/FUL
PendingDischarge of conditions26/00603/DOC - 202626 Jan
Discharge of condition 4 (Construction and Environmental Management Plan) from planning permission…
PendingDischarge of conditions26/00184/DOC
Source: Chichester
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- Savills (UK) Ltd · Agent for this application
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