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Seaford Constitutional Club Crouch Lane Seaford East Sussex BN25 1PU

LW/22/0356Planning ApplicationDecided
Full

Decided on 23 January 2023

Council decision: Not DeterminedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Redevelopment to provide a part 3, part 4 storey building with habitable roof space to provide 40 retirement apartments, with associated communal facilities, parking and landscaping and replacement club

Received
16 May 2022
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
17
Ward
Seaford South
Agent
The Planning Bureau Ltd
  1. Received16 May
  2. Validated6 Jun
  3. Consult.6 Jul
  4. Target1 Aug
  5. Decided23 Jan

Decided in 231 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application at Seaford Constitutional Club Crouch Lane Seaford East Sussex BN25 1PU. Lewes has handled 2,780 applications of this type. The site is in 6 listed buildings nearby. 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 1PU
Application type
Planning Application
Scale / size
Large
Parish
Seaford

Planning application dates

Date validated
6 June 2022
Consultation expiry
8 July 2022
Consultation start
8 June 2022
Consultation end
6 July 2022
Neighbour consultation start
8 June 2022
Neighbour consultation end
6 July 2022
Last date for comments
11 July 2022
Target decision date
1 August 2022
Permission expires
23 January 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent
The Planning Bureau Ltd
Agent address
2 Genesis Business Park Albert Drive Woking GU21 5RW

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Last advertised
10 June 2022
Advertisement expiry
8 July 2022
Site notice start
9 June 2022
Site notice end
30 June 2022

Appeal

Appeal reference
APPEAL/23/0007
Appeal status
Appeal decided
Appeal result
Appeal Allowed

Appeal history

3315202
Allowed
Type: Planning AppealProcedure: InquiryDecision: 29 August 2023Dev Type: Major dwellingsReason: Failure

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-11248033
Documents
243
Constraints
6

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Seaford (Town Centre)Next to the site
  • Listed building: Grade II: Stone House (Immediately Behind Seaford House)On or next to this site
  • Brownfield land register: Seaford Constitutional Club, Crouch Lane, SeafordRegister 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 (19)

flood storage areas, 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 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.

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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