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Millfield Haywards Heath Road North Chailey East Sussex BN8 4EX

LW/16/0976Certificate of Lawful Use/Dev (Existing)Approved
Lawful development certificate

Approved on 24 January 2017

Delegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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This information is subject to Crown copyright and database rights 2026 and is reproduced with the permission of HM Land Registry. The polygons (including the associated geometry, namely x, y co-ordinates) are subject to Crown copyright and database rights 2026 Ordnance Survey AC0000851063. Conditions of use.

Proposal

Confirmation that the larger area of land to the north of the dwellinghouse, when taken together with the dwellinghouse and the land around it, forms a single planning unit in lawful use within Use Class C3 of the Town and Country Planning (Use Classes) Order 1987 (as amended).

Received
23 November 2016
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Chailey & Wivelsfield
  1. Received23 Nov
  2. Validated1 Dec
  3. Consult.29 Dec
  4. Target26 Jan
  5. Decided24 Jan

Decided in 54 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at Millfield Haywards Heath Road North Chailey East Sussex BN8 4EX. Lewes has handled 183 applications of this type. This one was decided in 62 days, 6 days longer than Lewes's typical decision time. There has been 1 other application at this address. We hold 1,970 applications in total for the BN8 postcode area.

92% of amendment 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
BN8 4EX
Application type
Certificate of Lawful Use/Dev (Existing)
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Chailey

Planning application dates

Date validated
1 December 2016
Consultation expiry
29 December 2016
Consultation start
1 December 2016
Consultation end
29 December 2016
Neighbour consultation start
1 December 2016
Neighbour consultation end
29 December 2016
Last date for comments
30 December 2016
Target decision date
26 January 2017

Applicant and agent

Agent
Stiles Harold Williams
Agent address
One Jubilee Street Brighton BN1 1GE

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-05581235
Comments
0
Documents
33
Constraints
35

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • SSSI: Chailey Common SSSIPart of the site
  • Local nature reserve: Chailey CommonPart of the site
  • 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 parks, National Landscapes, Special Areas of Conservation, Special Protection Areas, Ramsar sites, ancient woodland, 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: Lewes

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