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Downs Leisure Centre Sutton Road Seaford East Sussex BN25 4QW

LW/05/1915Planning ApplicationApproved
Full

Approved on 7 December 2005

Planning committee

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Replace artificial turf on pitch, floodlight columns, and existing fencing with five metre high fence. Improve access to pitch and amend times for floodlight use up to 10pm on weekdays

Received
29 September 2005
Decision level
Planning committee
Ward
Seaford South
  1. Received29 Sep
  2. Validated29 Sep
  3. Consult.
  4. Target7 Dec
  5. Decided7 Dec

Decided in 69 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application at Downs Leisure Centre Sutton Road Seaford East Sussex BN25 4QW. Lewes has handled 2,780 applications of this type. This one was decided in 69 days, 13 days longer than Lewes's typical decision time. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 9 applications across Seaford South. We hold 1,428 applications in total for the BN25 postcode area.

92% of full applications at Lewes District Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
BN25 4QW
Application type
Planning Application
Scale / size
Medium
Parish
Seaford

Planning application dates

Date validated
29 September 2005
Target decision date
7 December 2005
Committee meeting
14 December 2005
Decision issued
16 December 2005

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Downs Leisure Centre Sutton Road Seaford East Sussex BN25 4QW

Planning decision

Statutory period
69 days

Additional information

Comments
0
Constraints
2

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

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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.

© 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: Lewes

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