Connex South Central Wivelsfield Railway Station Leylands Road Burgess Hill West Sussex RH15 0QF

DM/23/2954Network Rail Prior NotificationApproved

Outline / PiP

Approved on 18 December 2023

Council decision: PermissionDelegated (officer decision)

Proposal

Proposal for the construction of a new bridge with stair and lift access to platforms 1 and 2 at Wivelsfield Station.

Received: 16 November 2023
Decision level: Delegated (officer decision)
Council: Mid Sussex District Council
Ward: Burgess Hill - St Andrews

ReceivedReceived16 Nov
ValidatedValidated16 Nov
Consult.Consultation
TargetTarget Date11 Jan
DecidedDecided18 Dec

Decided in 32 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an outline application at Connex South Central Wivelsfield Railway Station Leylands Road Burgess Hill West Sussex RH15 0QF. Mid Sussex has handled 485 applications of this type. This one was decided in 32 days, 2 weeks quicker than Mid Sussex's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 29 applications across Burgess Hill - St Andrews. We hold 747 applications in total for the RH15 postcode area.

90% of outline applications at Mid Sussex District Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 7 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode: RH15 0QF
Application type: Network Rail Prior Notification
Scale / size: Small
Parish: Burgess Hill

Planning application dates

Date validated: 16 November 2023
Target decision date: 11 January 2024

Planning decision

Statutory period: 56 days

Additional information

Documents: 17

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. Ask the council if these matter.

Possibly incomplete for this council: tree preservation orders.

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: Mid Sussex

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