Land Opposite Caffyns Plc Brooks Road Lewes East Sussex BN7 2DN

SDNP/14/04232/PREPre-Application AdviceApproved

Outline / PiP

Approved on 22 August 2014

Council decision: Pre Application Advice CompleteDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate location: the centre of the postcode, not the exact property.

Proposal

1 x DSLAM Cabinet

Received: 14 August 2014
Decision level: Delegated (officer decision)
Council: South Downs
Ward: Lewes Bridge Ward

ReceivedReceived14 Aug
ValidatedValidated14 Aug
Consult.Consultation16 Sep
TargetTarget Date11 Sep
DecidedDecided22 Aug

Decided in 8 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application at Land Opposite Caffyns Plc Brooks Road Lewes East Sussex BN7 2DN. South Downs has handled 1,978 applications of this type. This one was decided in 8 days, 7 weeks quicker than South Downs's typical decision time. The site is in 3 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.

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 2DN
Application type: Pre-Application Advice
Scale / size: Small
Parish: Lewes Town Council

Planning application dates

Date validated: 14 August 2014
Last date for comments: 16 September 2014
Target decision date: 11 September 2014
Permission expires: 22 August 2019

Planning decision

Statutory period: 28 days

Additional information

Documents: 0
Constraints: 9

Site constraints

Checking the site

2/3

Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

Flood zone 3: High probability (rivers and sea)
National park: South Downs

Possibly incomplete for this council: Article 4 directions and 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 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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© 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.

Source: South Downs

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