15 Western Road Lewes East Sussex
Withdrawn on 11 June 2014
Council decision: Application WithdrawnDelegated (officer decision)
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Proposal
Change of use from B1 Business (Offices) to D1 (Non-Residential institutions)
- Received
- 27 March 2014
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- South Downs
- Ward
- Lewes Priory Ward
- Agent
- Liam Russell Architects Ltd
- ReceivedReceived27 Mar
- ValidatedValidated24 Apr
- Consult.Consultation19 May
- TargetTarget Date19 Jun
- DecidedDecided11 Jun
Decided in 48 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is a full planning application for a change of use at 15 Western Road Lewes East Sussex. South Downs has handled 5,093 applications of this type. It was withdrawn 76 days after it was submitted, before a decision was made. The site is in the Lewes conservation area, with 12 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 69 applications across Lewes Priory Ward.
88% of full applications at South Downs were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).
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Application details
- Application type
- Full Application
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Lewes Town Council
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 24 April 2014
- Consultation expiry
- 21 May 2014
- Consultation start
- 28 April 2014
- Consultation end
- 19 May 2014
- Neighbour consultation start
- 30 April 2014
- Neighbour consultation end
- 21 May 2014
- Last date for comments
- 21 May 2014
- Target decision date
- 19 June 2014
Applicant and agent
- Agent
- Liam Russell Architects Ltd
- Agent address
- 3 Broad Reach Mews Ropetackle Shoreham-by-sea West Sussex BN43 5EY
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Publicity
- Site notice start
- 29 April 2014
- Site notice end
- 20 May 2014
Additional information
- Planning Portal ID
- PP-03286042
- Documents
- 13
- Constraints
- 18
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Conservation area: Lewes
- National park: South Downs
- Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Possibly incomplete for this council: Article 4 directions and tree preservation orders.
Also checked, none recorded (19)
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 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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Source: South Downs
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