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Land At Old Vicarage Field Off Church Road Turners Hill West Sussex

DM/25/1020Screening OpinionApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 6 May 2025

Council decision: EIA Not RequiredDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Formally request the adoption of a Screening Opinion pursuant to Regulation 6 of the Town and Country Planning (Environmental Impact Assessment) Regulations 2017, in relation to a proposed residential development of Land at Old Vicarage Field off Church Road, Turners Hill

Received
16 April 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Ardingly, Balcombe And Turners Hill
  1. Received16 Apr
  2. Validated16 Apr
  3. Consult.
  4. Target7 May
  5. Decided6 May

Decided in 20 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an outline application at Land At Old Vicarage Field Off Church Road Turners Hill West Sussex. Mid Sussex has handled 485 applications of this type. This one was decided in 20 days, 4 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 116 applications across Ardingly, Balcombe And Turners Hill.

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

Application type
Screening Opinion
Scale / size
Medium
Parish
Turners Hill

Planning application dates

Date validated
16 April 2025
Target decision date
7 May 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Gillings Planning Ltd 2 Wessex Business Park Colden Common Winchester Hampshire SO21 1WP

Planning decision

Statutory period
21 days

Additional information

Documents
5

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Turners HillPart of the site
  • Listed building: Grade II: Cottage Belonging to the Paddockhurst EstateOn this site · +5 more
  • SSSI: Turner's Hill SSSIPart of the site
  • Ancient woodland: Butchers WoodPart of the site
  • 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 (18)

flood storage areas, 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, Special Areas of Conservation, Special Protection Areas, Ramsar sites, 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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