Middle Farm Eastbourne Road Firle East Sussex BN8 6LJ
Approved on 18 August 2026
Council decision: Prior Approval Approved2 conditions
Proposal
Change the use of 2no. existing agricultural barns to a flexible commercial use, including the division of each building to create 4no. commercial units
- Received
- 26 June 2026
- Council
- Lewes District Council
- Ward
- Ouse Valley & Ringmer
- ReceivedReceived26 Jun
- ValidatedValidated26 Jun
- Consult.Consultation29 Jul
- TargetTarget Date21 Aug
- DecidedDecided18 Aug
Decided in 53 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is an outline application at Middle Farm Eastbourne Road Firle East Sussex BN8 6LJ. Lewes has handled 317 applications of this type. This one was decided in 53 days, 3 days quicker than Lewes's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 32 applications across Ouse Valley & Ringmer. 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 6LJ
- Application type
- Prior Approval from AGR to Flexible
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Firle
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 26 June 2026
- Consultation expiry
- 29 July 2026
- Consultation start
- 1 July 2026
- Consultation end
- 29 July 2026
- Last date for comments
- 29 July 2026
- Target decision date
- 21 August 2026
Applicant and agent
- Agent
- Strutt & Parker
- Agent address
- 201 High Street Lewes BN7 2NR
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Additional information
- Planning Portal ID
- PP-14966686
- Documents
- 12
- Constraints
- 5
Site constraints
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.
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.
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