89 High Street Lewes East Sussex BN7 1XN
Proposal
Change of use ground floor retail to living accommodation
- Received
- 31 October 2017
- Decided
- 8 December 2017 · Pre Application Advice Complete
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- South Downs
- Ward
- Lewes Priory Ward
- ReceivedReceived31 Oct
- ValidatedValidated1 Nov
- Consult.Consultation
- TargetTarget Date29 Nov
- DecidedDecided8 Dec
Decided in 37 days (council typically 56)
This is an outline application for a change of use at 89 High Street Lewes East Sussex BN7 1XN. South Downs has handled 1,978 applications of this type and approves nearly all of them, typically deciding them in 31 days. This one was decided in 38 days, 7 days longer than South Downs's median. The site is in the Lewes conservation area, with 20 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 72 applications across Lewes Priory Ward. We hold 4,283 applications in total for the BN7 postcode area.
Application Details
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Planning Application Dates
Planning Decision
Publicity
Appeal
Additional Information
Source: South Downs
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Planning constraints
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 (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.
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