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85A High Street Lewes East Sussex BN7 1XN

SDNP/15/00523/PNCOUOPrior Approval - COU Office to ResApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 14 May 2015

Council decision: App Not Required - Prior ApprovalDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Change of use of first floor offices (B1a) to flats (C3)

Received
3 February 2015
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Council
South Downs
Ward
Lewes Priory Ward
Agent
DMH Stallard Ltd
  1. Received3 Feb
  2. Validated27 Mar
  3. Consult.29 Apr
  4. Target8 May
  5. Decided14 May

Decided in 48 days (council typically 56)

About this application

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. This one was decided in 100 days, 6 weeks longer than South Downs's typical decision time. 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 69 applications across Lewes Priory 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 1XN
Application type
Prior Approval - COU Office to Res
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Lewes Town Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
27 March 2015
Last date for comments
29 April 2015
Target decision date
8 May 2015
Permission expires
14 May 2020

Applicant and agent

Agent
DMH Stallard Ltd
Agent address
Gainsborough House Pegler Way Crawley RH11 7FZ

Planning decision

Statutory period
42 days

Additional information

Documents
10
Constraints
21

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Lewes
  • Listed building: Grade II: 86, High StreetOn or next to this site · +4 more
  • 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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Planning history at this site

1 other application at this property, newest first.

  1. 2014
    4 Dec

    Change of use of first floor from B1 offices to C3 flats.

    ApprovedPre-Application AdviceSDNP/14/06260/PRE

Source: South Downs

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