Street Record Harveys Lane Ringmer East Sussex

LW/25/0540Screening OpinionApproved

Outline / PiP

Approved on 30 October 2025

Council decision: EIA Not RequiredDelegated (officer decision)

Proposal

Screening Opinion under Regulation 6 of the Town and Country Planning (EIA) Regulations 2017 for construction and operation of a ground mounted solar PV farm and Battery Energy Storage System (BESS), together with all associated works, ancillary infrastructure and equipment, landscaping, biodiversity improvements and access

Received: 8 September 2025
Decision level: Delegated (officer decision)
Council: Lewes District Council
Ward: Ouse Valley & Ringmer

ReceivedReceived8 Sep
ValidatedValidated8 Sep
Consult.Consultation26 Sep
TargetTarget Date22 Sep
DecidedDecided30 Oct

Decided in 52 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for a solar installation at Street Record Harveys Lane Ringmer East Sussex. Lewes has handled 317 applications of this type. This one was decided in 52 days, 4 days quicker than Lewes's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 33 applications across Ouse Valley & Ringmer.

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

Application type: Screening Opinion
Scale / size: Medium
Parish: Ringmer

Planning application dates

Date validated: 8 September 2025
Consultation expiry: 26 September 2025
Consultation start: 12 September 2025
Consultation end: 26 September 2025
Last date for comments: 26 September 2025
Target decision date: 22 September 2025
Permission expires: 30 October 2030

Planning decision

Statutory period: 14 days

Additional information

Documents: 8
Constraints: 38

Site constraints

Checking the site

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Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

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.

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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.

Source: Lewes

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