Cobbs Meadow At Banks Farm Barcombe Mills Road Barcombe East Sussex

LW/26/0240Class BC Permitted Development rightApproved

Outline / PiP

Approved on 5 June 2026

Council decision: Prior Approval Not required

Proposal

Prior notification for use of land as a 60 day campsite between the following dates: May 22-24, 29-30, June 5-6, 12-13, 19-20, 26-27, July 3-4, 10-11, 17-18, 24-25, August 1, 7-8, 14-15, 21-22, 28-30, September 4-5, 11-12, 18-19 (37 days)

Received: 1 May 2026
Council: Lewes District Council
Ward: Chailey, Barcombe & Hamsey

ReceivedReceived1 May
ValidatedValidated7 May
Consult.Consultation3 Jun
TargetTarget Date2 Jul
DecidedDecided5 Jun

Decided in 29 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application at Cobbs Meadow At Banks Farm Barcombe Mills Road Barcombe East Sussex. Lewes has handled 317 applications of this type. This one was decided in 35 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 60 applications across Chailey, Barcombe & Hamsey.

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: Class BC Permitted Development right
Scale / size: Small
Parish: Barcombe

Planning application dates

Date validated: 7 May 2026
Consultation expiry: 3 June 2026
Consultation start: 13 May 2026
Consultation end: 3 June 2026
Last date for comments: 3 June 2026
Target decision date: 2 July 2026

Planning decision

Statutory period: 56 days

Additional information

Documents: 12
Constraints: 12

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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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.

Source: Lewes

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