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Rykehurst House Rotten Row Lewes East Sussex BN7 1TN

SDNP/17/02625/PREPre-Application AdviceApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 6 June 2017

Council decision: Pre Application Advice CompleteDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Render garage to match existing house extension and insertion of a window to rear

Received
18 May 2017
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Council
South Downs
Ward
Lewes Priory Ward
  1. Received18 May
  2. Validated18 May
  3. Consult.
  4. Target15 Jun
  5. Decided6 Jun

Decided in 19 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for a garage at Rykehurst House Rotten Row Lewes East Sussex BN7 1TN. South Downs has handled 1,978 applications of this type. This one was decided in 19 days, 5 weeks quicker than South Downs's typical decision time. The site is in the Lewes conservation area, with 5 listed buildings nearby. There have been 6 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 1TN
Application type
Pre-Application Advice
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Lewes Town Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
18 May 2017
Target decision date
15 June 2017
Permission expires
6 June 2022

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.

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

6 other applications at this property, newest first.

  1. 2017
    19 Sep

    1 x Cherry (T1 on plan) - reduce crown by approximateley 1.5m back to previously pruned height and width1 x…

    ApprovedTree in a Conservation AreaSDNP/17/04886/TPO
  2. 2015
    13 Jan

    1 x Yew- reduce crown by 1- 1.5m and crown lift to 2.5 m1 x Holly - crown lift by 1m of sub-lateral branches…

    ApprovedTree in a Conservation AreaSDNP/15/00270/TCA
  3. 2014
    7 Dec

    Demolish and rebuild existing section of wall to street boundary

    WithdrawnHouseholderSDNP/14/06298/HOUS
  4. 2014
    12 Aug

    Change of materials to existing garage

    RefusedHouseholderSDNP/14/04090/HOUS
  5. 2014
    1 Aug

    Demolish and rebuild existing brick pier and wall to street boundary

    ApprovedHouseholderSDNP/14/03888/HOUS
  6. 2014
    25 Mar

    Discharge of conditions 1 & 2 relating to SDNP/13/02415/HOUS

    ApprovedDischarge of conditionsSDNP/14/01500/DCOND

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