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Harveys Depot Pinwell Road Lewes East Sussex BN7 2JS

SDNP/14/01904/FULFull ApplicationApproved
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Approved on 27 March 2015

Planning committee

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

The conversion, adaptation and extension of the former Harveys Depot building to house a 3 screen digital cinema, film education/training facilities, multi-use room for training/community use, ancillary cafe bar and restaurant, ancillary back and front of house accommodation (including visitor toilets, staff welfare accommodation, office, server room, kitchen and store, hard and soft landscaping of the former tarmac service yard. (Change of use to D2 with ancillary A3 use.)

Received
14 April 2014
Decision level
Planning committee
Council
South Downs
Ward
Lewes Bridge Ward
Agent
Burrell Foley Fischer LLP
  1. Received14 Apr
  2. Validated14 Apr
  3. Consult.19 May
  4. Target9 Jun
  5. Decided27 Mar

Decided in 347 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at Harveys Depot Pinwell Road Lewes East Sussex BN7 2JS. South Downs has handled 5,093 applications of this type. This one was decided in 347 days, 42 weeks longer than South Downs's typical decision time. The site is in the Lewes conservation area, with 9 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 97 applications across Lewes Bridge Ward. We hold 4,320 applications in total for the BN7 postcode area.

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

Postcode
BN7 2JS
Application type
Full Application
Scale / size
Large
Parish
Lewes Town Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
14 April 2014
Consultation expiry
19 May 2014
Consultation start
28 April 2014
Consultation end
19 May 2014
Neighbour consultation start
17 April 2014
Neighbour consultation end
8 May 2014
Last date for comments
1 September 2014
Target decision date
9 June 2014
Permission expires
27 March 2018

Applicant and agent

Agent
Burrell Foley Fischer LLP
Agent address
Isis House 67-69 Southwark Street London SE1 0HX

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Site notice start
25 April 2014
Site notice end
16 May 2014

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-03301382
Documents
291
Constraints
20

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Flood zone 3: High probability (rivers and sea)Part of the site
  • Conservation area: Lewes
  • Listed building: Grade II: 15, Lansdown PlaceOn or next to this site · +2 more
  • National park: South Downs

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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© 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.

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