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Old School House Font Hill Newick East Sussex BN8 4RT

LW/23/0298Listed Building Consent ApplicationApproved
Listed building consent

Approved on 6 December 2023

Delegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Internal and external works including creation of hipped roof on lower extensions and erection of dormers, installation of roof lights, alterations to fenestration, extension of car parking area with increased height of covered parking, hard landscaping, addition of a swimming pool, alongside changes to internal layout including reconfiguration to staircases, removal of partition walls and associated ancillary works

Received
16 May 2023
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
3
Ward
Newick
  1. Received16 May
  2. Validated14 Jun
  3. Consult.25 Jul
  4. Target9 Aug
  5. Decided6 Dec

Decided in 175 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a heritage application for an extension at Old School House Font Hill Newick East Sussex BN8 4RT. Lewes has handled 406 applications of this type. This one was decided in 204 days, 21 weeks longer than Lewes's typical decision time. The site is in 3 listed buildings nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 30 applications across Newick. We hold 1,970 applications in total for the BN8 postcode area.

95% of heritage 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 4RT
Application type
Listed Building Consent Application
Scale / size
Large
Parish
Newick

Planning application dates

Date validated
14 June 2023
Consultation expiry
4 August 2023
Consultation start
27 June 2023
Consultation end
25 July 2023
Neighbour consultation start
29 June 2023
Neighbour consultation end
27 July 2023
Last date for comments
4 August 2023
Target decision date
9 August 2023
Permission expires
6 December 2026

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Last advertised
7 July 2023
Advertisement expiry
4 August 2023
Site notice start
30 June 2023
Site notice end
21 July 2023

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-12139071
Documents
108
Constraints
36

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

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 (21)

flood storage areas, conservation 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, heritage coasts and brownfield registers.

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Data © Crown copyright and others · sources and licences

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Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Associated applications

  1. 2023
    16 May

    Internal and external works including creation of hipped roof on lower extensions and erection of dormers…

    ApprovedHouseholderFiled alongsideLW/23/0297
  2. 2023
    16 May

    Internal and external works including creation of hipped roof on lower extensions and erection of dormers…

    This applicationApprovedHeritageLW/23/0298

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