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The Depot Pinwell Road Lewes East Sussex BN7 2JS

SDNP/15/03822/DCONDApproval of Detail reserved by ConditionApproved
Discharge / amendments

Approved on 10 September 2015

Delegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Discharge of conditions no. 10, 11 and 15 on SDNP/14/01904/FUL - The conversion, adaptation and extension of the former Harvey's Depot building to house a 3 screen digital cinema, film education/training facilities, multi-use room for training/community use, ancillary cafe bar and restaurant, ancillary back and front of house accommodation (including visitor toilets, staff welfare accommodation, office, server room, kitchen and store, hard and soft landscaping of the former tarmac service yard. (Change of use to D2 with ancillary A3 use).

Received
30 July 2015
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Council
South Downs
Ward
Lewes Bridge Ward
  1. Received30 Jul
  2. Validated30 Jul
  3. Consult.9 Sep
  4. Target24 Sep
  5. Decided10 Sep

Decided in 42 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to discharge conditions at The Depot Pinwell Road Lewes East Sussex BN7 2JS. South Downs has handled 2,087 applications of this type. This one was decided in 42 days, 2 weeks quicker than South Downs's typical decision time. The site is in the Lewes conservation area, with 9 listed buildings nearby. There have been 3 other applications 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.

95% of conditions 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 2JS
Application type
Approval of Detail reserved by Condition
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Lewes Town Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
30 July 2015
Last date for comments
9 September 2015
Target decision date
24 September 2015
Permission expires
10 September 2018

Applicant and agent

Agent
Burrell Foley Fischer
Agent address
67 Southwark Street London London SE1 0HX United Kingdom

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-04372404
Documents
6
Constraints
19

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Flood zone 3: High probability (rivers and sea)Part of the site
  • Conservation area: Lewes
  • Listed building: Grade II: 15, Lansdown PlaceOn or next to this site · +2 more
  • National park: South Downs

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.

Data © Crown copyright and others · sources and licences

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© 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.

Source: South Downs

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