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Ditchling Camping Land To The West Of The Drove The Drove Ditchling East Sussex BN6 8TR

LW/24/0348Class BC Permitted Development rightWithdrawn
Outline / PiP

Withdrawn on 30 May 2024

Delegated (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

Camping for 60 days in any calendar year for up to 50 pitches including provisions for motor vehicle designed or adapted for human habitation (campervans and motorhomes) and movable structures reasonably necessary for that use (movable toilets, showers, utility rooms etc)

Received
3 May 2024
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Ditchling & Westmeston
  1. Received3 May
  2. Validated3 May
  3. Consult.
  4. Target28 Jun
  5. Decided30 May

Decided in 27 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application at Ditchling Camping Land To The West Of The Drove The Drove Ditchling East Sussex BN6 8TR. Lewes has handled 317 applications of this type. It was withdrawn 27 days after it was submitted, before a decision was made. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 3 applications across Ditchling & Westmeston. We hold 1,705 applications in total for the BN6 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
BN6 8TR
Application type
Class BC Permitted Development right
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Ditchling

Planning application dates

Date validated
3 May 2024
Target decision date
28 June 2024

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Comments
0
Documents
0
Constraints
22

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: DitchlingPart of the site
  • National park: South Downs
  • 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, 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 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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