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Waitwell House Malling Hill Lewes East Sussex BN7 2RR

SDNP/15/03267/PREPre-Application AdviceApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 10 August 2015

Council decision: Pre Application Advice CompleteDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

4 new apartments with associated car parking for new and existing dwellings.

Received
23 June 2015
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Council
South Downs
Ward
Lewes Bridge Ward
Agent
Planning Permissions
  1. Received23 Jun
  2. Validated4 Aug
  3. Consult.
  4. Target8 Sep
  5. Decided10 Aug

Decided in 6 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application at Waitwell House Malling Hill Lewes East Sussex BN7 2RR. South Downs has handled 1,978 applications of this type. This one was decided in 48 days, 8 days quicker than South Downs's typical decision time. The site is in 1 listed building nearby. There has been 1 other application 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 2RR
Application type
Pre-Application Advice
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Lewes Town Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
4 August 2015
Target decision date
8 September 2015
Decision issued
11 August 2015
Permission expires
11 August 2020

Applicant and agent

Agent
Planning Permissions

Planning decision

Statutory period
35 days

Additional information

Documents
5
Constraints
8

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

  • 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 (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.

Data © Crown copyright and others · sources and licences

Contains public sector information from planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG and local planning authorities), licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© 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.

© Natural England copyright. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Flood Map for Planning, Open Government Licence v3.0.

Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Planning history at this site

1 other application at this property, newest first.

  1. 2014
    17 Mar

    Erection of 1 x two storey dwelling

    ApprovedPre-Application AdviceSDNP/14/01401/PRE

Source: South Downs

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