Palmerston House The Street Cowfold West Sussex
Approved on 12 February 2016
Council decision: Application PermittedDelegated (officer decision)
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Proposal
Proposed loft conversion including erection of dormer windows and installation of a new window and roof lights to form a 1- bed flat
- Received
- 5 November 2015
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- Horsham District Council
- Ward
- Cowfold,Shermanbury and West Grinstead
- ReceivedReceived5 Nov
- ValidatedValidated10 Nov
- Consult.Consultation29 Dec
- TargetTarget Date5 Jan
- DecidedDecided12 Feb
Decided in 94 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is a full planning application for a loft conversion at Palmerston House The Street Cowfold West Sussex. Horsham has handled 2,753 applications of this type. This one was decided in 99 days, 6 weeks longer than Horsham's typical decision time. The site is in the Cowfold conservation area, with 11 listed buildings nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address.
90% of full applications at Horsham District Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).
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Application details
- Application type
- Full Application
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Cowfold PC
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 10 November 2015
- Consultation expiry
- 29 December 2015
- Consultation end
- 29 December 2015
- Neighbour consultation end
- 8 December 2015
- Target decision date
- 5 January 2016
Applicant and agent
- Agent address
- 78 Potters Lane Burgess Hill RH15 9JS
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Publicity
- Advertisement expiry
- 11 December 2015
- Site notice end
- 21 December 2015
Additional information
- Documents
- 17
- Constraints
- 11
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Conservation area: Cowfold Conservation Area
- Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (22)
flood storage areas, Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders, 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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Planning history at this site
3 other applications at this property, newest first.
- 20154 Jun
Proposed loft conversion forming additional 2-bed flat(Affects the setting of a listed building)
RefusedFull ApplicationDC/15/1257 - 201520 Jan
Prior Approval of change of use from office B1 to dwelling C3
ApprovedPrior Approval CoU A1,2,SuiGen to D2DC/15/0142 - 201320 Sep
Notification for change of use from offices to dwellings
RefusedPrior Approval Offices to DwellingsDC/13/1802
Source: Horsham
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