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Wellington Cottage 70 Lewes Road Ditchling East Sussex BN6 8TY

LW/08/0095Planning ApplicationApproved
Full

Approved on 6 March 2008

Planning committee

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Formation of crossover at front of property

Received
24 January 2008
Decision level
Planning committee
Public comments
3
Ward
Ditchling & Westmeston
  1. Received24 Jan
  2. Validated24 Jan
  3. Consult.22 Feb
  4. Target20 Mar
  5. Decided6 Mar

Decided in 42 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application at Wellington Cottage 70 Lewes Road Ditchling East Sussex BN6 8TY. Lewes has handled 2,780 applications of this type. This one was decided in 42 days, 2 weeks quicker than Lewes's typical decision time. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 3 applications across Ditchling & Westmeston. We hold 1,705 applications in total for the BN6 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
BN6 8TY
Application type
Planning Application
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Ditchling

Planning application dates

Date validated
24 January 2008
Consultation expiry
22 February 2008
Consultation start
25 January 2008
Consultation end
22 February 2008
Neighbour consultation start
25 January 2008
Neighbour consultation end
22 February 2008
Last date for comments
22 February 2008
Target decision date
20 March 2008
Committee meeting
5 March 2008
Decision issued
10 March 2008
Permission expires
10 March 2011

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Site notice start
1 February 2008
Site notice end
22 February 2008

Additional information

Constraints
10

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • National park: South Downs
  • Brownfield land register: 68 Nye Lane and associated land, DitchlingRegister 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 (20)

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 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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© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Flood Map for Planning, Open Government Licence v3.0.

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