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63 New Heritage Way North Chailey East Sussex BN8 4GD

LW/24/0471Certificate of Lawful Use/Dev (Proposed)Approved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 28 August 2024

Delegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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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

Change of use from existing householder (C3A) to children's care home (C3B)

Received
22 July 2024
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Chailey, Barcombe & Hamsey
Agent
Absolute Town Planning Ltd
  1. Received22 Jul
  2. Validated22 Jul
  3. Consult.
  4. Target16 Sep
  5. Decided28 Aug

Decided in 37 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for a change of use at 63 New Heritage Way North Chailey East Sussex BN8 4GD. Lewes has handled 317 applications of this type. This one was decided in 37 days, 3 weeks quicker than Lewes's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 59 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 4GD
Application type
Certificate of Lawful Use/Dev (Proposed)
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Chailey

Planning application dates

Date validated
22 July 2024
Target decision date
16 September 2024

Applicant and agent

Agent
Absolute Town Planning Ltd
Agent address
C/o Parkers At Cornelius House 178-180 Church Road Hove BN3 2DJ

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-13245155
Comments
0
Documents
9
Constraints
26

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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