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Oakwood House Sands Lane Small Dole Henfield West Sussex BN5 9YL

DC/23/1386Certificate Existing Lawful Use/DevApproved
Lawful development certificate

Approved on 19 January 2024

Council decision: Application PermittedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Application to confirm the continuous use of outbuilding as a dwellinghouse for a period in excess of four years (Lawful Development Certificate Existing)

Received
18 July 2023
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Bramber, Upper Beeding and Woodmancote
Agent
South Eastern Planning Services Ltd
  1. Received18 Jul
  2. Validated18 Jul
  3. Consult.11 Aug
  4. Target12 Sep
  5. Decided19 Jan

Decided in 185 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at Oakwood House Sands Lane Small Dole Henfield West Sussex BN5 9YL. Horsham has handled 241 applications of this type. This one was decided in 185 days, 18 weeks longer than Horsham's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 39 applications across Bramber, Upper Beeding and Woodmancote. We hold 1,070 applications in total for the BN5 postcode area.

70% of amendment 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

Postcode
BN5 9YL
Application type
Certificate Existing Lawful Use/Dev
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Upper Beeding PC

Planning application dates

Date validated
18 July 2023
Consultation expiry
11 August 2023
Consultation end
11 August 2023
Neighbour consultation end
11 August 2023
Last date for comments
11 August 2023
Target decision date
12 September 2023

Applicant and agent

Agent
South Eastern Planning Services Ltd
Agent address
67 Coleridge St Hove BN3 5AA

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-12320161
Documents
16
Constraints
10

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • National park: South DownsNext to the site
  • Ancient woodlandNext to the site
  • Local nature reserve: Tottington WoodNext to the site
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (21)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, 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 Landscapes, SSSIs, Special Areas of Conservation, Special Protection Areas, Ramsar sites, national 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: Horsham

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