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May Cottage Tea Rooms Haywards Heath Road North Chailey East Sussex BN8 4ES

LW/22/0743Prior Approval from Shop/Bank - DwellingApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 22 December 2022

Council decision: Prior Approval Not requiredDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
Boundary © HM Land Registry, © Ordnance Survey · details

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

Prior Approval Under the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) Order 2015 (as amended) - Schedule 2, Part 3, Class MA for Change of use from Commercial, Business and Service (Use Class E) to dwelling house (Use Class C3)

Received
28 October 2022
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
1
Ward
Chailey, Barcombe & Hamsey
  1. Received28 Oct
  2. Validated28 Oct
  3. Consult.5 Dec
  4. Target23 Dec
  5. Decided22 Dec

Decided in 55 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for a change of use at May Cottage Tea Rooms Haywards Heath Road North Chailey East Sussex BN8 4ES. Lewes has handled 317 applications of this type. This one was decided in 55 days. There have been 2 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 60 applications across Chailey, Barcombe & Hamsey. We hold 1,970 applications in total for the BN8 postcode area.

86% of outline 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 4ES
Application type
Prior Approval from Shop/Bank - Dwelling
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Chailey

Planning application dates

Date validated
28 October 2022
Consultation expiry
5 December 2022
Consultation start
7 November 2022
Consultation end
5 December 2022
Neighbour consultation start
7 November 2022
Neighbour consultation end
28 November 2022
Last date for comments
5 December 2022
Target decision date
23 December 2022
Permission expires
22 December 2027

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Site notice start
8 November 2022
Site notice end
29 November 2022

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-11627634
Documents
7
Constraints
32

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.

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  1. 2023
    25 Jan

    Discharge of condition (Pre-com cycle store) relating to prior approval of LW/22/0743

    ApprovedDischarge of conditionsLW/23/0044/CD
  2. 2022
    28 Oct

    Prior Approval Under the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) Order 2015 (as…

    This applicationApprovedOutlineLW/22/0743

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