8 North Street Lewes East Sussex BN7 2PA
Approved on 4 September 2014
Council decision: App Not Required - Prior ApprovalDelegated (officer decision)
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Proposal
Change of Use from Office (B1) to up to 10 Residential Units (C3)
- Received
- 16 June 2014
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- South Downs
- Ward
- Lewes Castle Ward
- ReceivedReceived16 Jun
- ValidatedValidated14 Jul
- Consult.Consultation12 Aug
- TargetTarget Date8 Sep
- DecidedDecided4 Sep
Decided in 52 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is an outline application for a change of use at 8 North Street Lewes East Sussex BN7 2PA. South Downs has handled 1,978 applications of this type. This one was decided in 80 days, 3 weeks longer than South Downs's typical decision time. The site is in the Lewes conservation area, with 7 listed buildings nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 54 applications across Lewes Castle Ward. We hold 4,320 applications in total for the BN7 postcode area.
87% of outline 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 2PA
- Application type
- Prior Approval - Large Domesic Ext/Alt
- Scale / size
- Medium
- Number of dwellings
- 10
- Parish
- Lewes Town Council
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 14 July 2014
- Last date for comments
- 12 August 2014
- Target decision date
- 8 September 2014
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Additional information
- Documents
- 12
- Constraints
- 16
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Conservation area: Lewes
- National park: South Downs
- Brownfield land register: 8 North Street, LewesRegister site at or near this address · +2 more
- Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Possibly incomplete for this council: Article 4 directions and 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 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.
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Planning history at this site
1 other application at this property, newest first.
Source: South Downs
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