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Hambrook School Marle Place 171 Leylands Road Burgess Hill West Sussex RH15 8HZ

DM/23/3112Full ApplicationRefused
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Refused on 29 August 2024

Council decision: RefusalDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Installation of multi-use games area (MUGA), play area, trim trail, horticulture area, sensory garden, vehicular access security gate and fence, internal partition fences, perimeter security fences, soft/hard landscaping and associated works. Description amended 11.07.2024 to include formalised play area to front of school building. Amended plans received to show additional fence cladding proposed to outer side of existing close boarded perimeter fence and reduction in height of fence to MUGA. Noise Management Plan and Acoustic Assessment received 11.04.2024, Arboricultural Method Statement and Tree Protection Plan received 01.07.2024 and additional Heritage Statement received 24.05.2024.

Received
5 December 2023
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Burgess Hill - Leylands
  1. Received5 Dec
  2. Validated15 Jan
  3. Consult.
  4. Target11 Mar
  5. Decided29 Aug

Decided in 227 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a full planning application at Hambrook School Marle Place 171 Leylands Road Burgess Hill West Sussex RH15 8HZ. Mid Sussex has handled 2,577 applications of this type. This one was decided in 268 days, 31 weeks longer than Mid Sussex's typical decision time. The site is in the St John's conservation area. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 40 applications across Burgess Hill - Leylands. We hold 747 applications in total for the RH15 postcode area.

94% of full 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 8HZ
Application type
Full Application
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Burgess Hill

Planning application dates

Date validated
15 January 2024
Consultation expiry
9 August 2024
Target decision date
11 March 2024

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Space M Studio The Coach House 29 Birmingham Road Whitacre Heath Warwickshire B46 2ET

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Advertisement expiry
9 August 2024

Appeal

Appeal reference
AP/24/0061
Appeal status
Appeal Dismissed
Appeal result
Appeal Dismissed

Appeal history

3355413
Dismissed
Type: Planning AppealProcedure: Written RepresentationsDecision: 3 July 2025Dev Type: Other minor developmentsReason: Refusal

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-12608297
Documents
59

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: St John's
  • 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 (21)

flood storage 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

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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.

© 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.

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Source: Mid Sussex

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