85A High Street Lewes East Sussex BN7 1XN
Proposal
Change of use of first floor from B1 offices to C3 flats.
- Received
- 4 December 2014
- Decided
- 12 December 2014 · Pre Application Advice Complete
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- South Downs
- Ward
- Lewes Priory Ward
- ReceivedReceived4 Dec
- ValidatedValidated4 Dec
- Consult.Consultation11 Dec
- TargetTarget Date1 Jan
- DecidedDecided12 Dec
Decided in 8 days (council typically 56)
This is an outline application for a change of use at 85A High Street Lewes East Sussex BN7 1XN. South Downs has handled 1,978 applications of this type and approves nearly all of them, typically deciding them in 31 days. This one was decided in 8 days, 3 weeks quicker than South Downs's median. The site is in the Lewes conservation area, with 20 listed buildings nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 72 applications across Lewes Priory Ward. We hold 4,283 applications in total for the BN7 postcode area.
Application Details
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Additional Information
Source: South Downs
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Planning history at this site
1 other application at this property, newest first.
Planning constraints
Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.
- 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.
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Consultants on this application
- DMH Stallard LLP · Agent for this application
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