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Letter Box Cottage The Street Poynings Brighton West Sussex BN45 7AQ

SDNP/16/04096/PREPre-Application AdviceApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 30 August 2016

Council decision: Pre Application Advice CompleteDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Enquiry regarding whether planning permission is needed for change the use of a small portion of a field to the rear of the property to form part of the residential curtilage.

Received
15 August 2016
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Council
South Downs
Ward
Hurstpierpoint And Downs Ward
  1. Received15 Aug
  2. Validated15 Aug
  3. Consult.
  4. Target12 Sep
  5. Decided30 Aug

Decided in 15 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application at Letter Box Cottage The Street Poynings Brighton West Sussex BN45 7AQ. South Downs has handled 1,978 applications of this type. This one was decided in 15 days, 6 weeks quicker than South Downs's typical decision time. The site is in the Poynings conservation area, with 2 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. We hold 290 applications in total for the BN45 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
BN45 7AQ
Application type
Pre-Application Advice
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Poynings Parish Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
15 August 2016
Target decision date
12 September 2016
Permission expires
30 August 2021

Planning decision

Statutory period
28 days

Additional information

Documents
2
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.

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

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.

Source: South Downs

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