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Central Sussex College Queensmere House 49 Queens Road East Grinstead West Sussex RH19 1BG

DM/25/0388Full ApplicationApproved
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Approved on 24 March 2026

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Conversion of a D1 Educational Building to 24no. Residential Apartments (32 Bedrooms) with infilling of existing undercroft areas, associated car parking, landscaping, cycle spaces, amenity areas, 1.1m high metal fence and new ramp.

Received
13 February 2025
Ward
East Grinstead - Town
  1. Received13 Feb
  2. Validated13 Feb
  3. Consult.
  4. Target15 May
  5. Decided24 Mar

Decided in 404 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a full planning application at Central Sussex College Queensmere House 49 Queens Road East Grinstead West Sussex RH19 1BG. Mid Sussex has handled 2,577 applications of this type. This one was decided in 404 days, 51 weeks longer than Mid Sussex's typical decision time. The site is in 1 listed building nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 61 applications across East Grinstead - Town. We hold 842 applications in total for the RH19 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
RH19 1BG
Application type
Full Application
Scale / size
Large
Number of dwellings
24
Parish
East Grinstead

Planning application dates

Date validated
13 February 2025
Consultation expiry
21 March 2025
Target decision date
15 May 2025
Committee meeting
12 February 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent address
ATP Brook House 2A Coventry Road Ilford IG1 4QR

Planning decision

Statutory period
91 days

Publicity

Advertisement expiry
21 March 2025

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-13698136
Documents
84

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Brownfield land register: East Grinstead Delivery Office, 76 London Road, East GrinsteadRegister site at or near this address
  • 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, 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 and heritage coasts.

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.

Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Source: Mid Sussex

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