3 De Montfort Road Lewes East Sussex BN7 1SP

SDNP/15/05434/PREPre-Application AdviceApproved

Outline / PiP

Approved on 28 October 2015

Council decision: Pre Application Advice CompleteDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Remove existing rooflight and re-tile. Installation of new conservation style rooflight.

Received: 2 October 2015
Decision level: Delegated (officer decision)
Council: South Downs
Ward: Lewes Priory Ward

ReceivedReceived2 Oct
ValidatedValidated2 Oct
Consult.Consultation
TargetTarget Date30 Oct
DecidedDecided28 Oct

Decided in 26 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application at 3 De Montfort Road Lewes East Sussex BN7 1SP. South Downs has handled 1,978 applications of this type. This one was decided in 26 days, 4 weeks quicker than South Downs's typical decision time. The site is in the Lewes conservation area, with 8 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded 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 1SP
Application type: Pre-Application Advice
Scale / size: Small
Parish: Lewes Town Council

Planning application dates

Date validated: 2 October 2015
Target decision date: 30 October 2015
Permission expires: 28 October 2020

Planning decision

Statutory period: 28 days

Additional information

Documents: 1
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.

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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Source: South Downs

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