Mountfield Road Car Park Mountfield Road Lewes East Sussex BN7 2XA

SDNP/15/03138/PREPre-Application AdviceApproved

Outline / PiP

Approved on 30 June 2015

Council decision: Pre Application Advice CompleteDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

new signage in and around Mountfield Road Car Park

Received: 10 June 2015
Decision level: Delegated (officer decision)
Council: South Downs
Ward: Lewes Priory Ward

ReceivedReceived10 Jun
ValidatedValidated10 Jun
Consult.Consultation
TargetTarget Date8 Jul
DecidedDecided30 Jun

Decided in 20 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for signage at Mountfield Road Car Park Mountfield Road Lewes East Sussex BN7 2XA. South Downs has handled 1,978 applications of this type. This one was decided in 20 days, 5 weeks quicker than South Downs's typical decision time. The site is in the Lewes conservation area. There have been 2 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 69 applications across Lewes Priory Ward. We hold 4,321 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 2XA
Application type: Pre-Application Advice
Scale / size: Small
Parish: Lewes Town Council

Planning application dates

Date validated: 10 June 2015
Target decision date: 8 July 2015
Permission expires: 30 June 2020

Planning decision

Statutory period: 28 days

Additional information

Documents: 1
Constraints: 7

Site constraints

Checking the site

2/3

Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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 (20)

flood storage 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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2 other applications at this property, newest first.

Source: South Downs

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