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Ridge House Ditchling Road Wivelsfield East Sussex RH16 4QU

LW/23/0194Certificate of Lawful Use/Dev (Existing)Refused
Lawful development certificate

Refused on 17 July 2023

Delegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Retrospective use of annex as seperate dwelling

Received
24 March 2023
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
1
Ward
Wivelsfield
  1. Received24 Mar
  2. Validated15 May
  3. Consult.15 Jun
  4. Target10 Jul
  5. Decided17 Jul

Decided in 63 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at Ridge House Ditchling Road Wivelsfield East Sussex RH16 4QU. Lewes has handled 183 applications of this type. This one was decided in 115 days, 8 weeks longer than Lewes's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 18 applications across Wivelsfield. We hold 995 applications in total for the RH16 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
RH16 4QU
Application type
Certificate of Lawful Use/Dev (Existing)
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Wivelsfield

Planning application dates

Date validated
15 May 2023
Consultation expiry
15 June 2023
Consultation start
18 May 2023
Consultation end
15 June 2023
Last date for comments
15 June 2023
Target decision date
10 July 2023

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Site notice start
19 May 2023
Site notice end
9 June 2023

Additional information

Documents
20
Constraints
33

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

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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