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Waitrose Eastgate Street Lewes BN7 2LP

SDNP/18/06123/ADVApplication to Display AdvertsRefused
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Refused on 4 February 2019

Delegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Display of internally illuminated freestanding single sided LED display

Received
29 November 2018
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Council
South Downs
Ward
Lewes Bridge Ward
  1. Received29 Nov
  2. Validated11 Dec
  3. Consult.29 Jan
  4. Target5 Feb
  5. Decided4 Feb

Decided in 55 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an advertising consent application at Waitrose Eastgate Street Lewes BN7 2LP. South Downs has handled 133 applications of this type. This one was decided in 67 days, 11 days longer than South Downs's typical decision time. The site is in the Lewes conservation area, with 12 listed buildings nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 94 applications across Lewes Bridge Ward. We hold 4,321 applications in total for the BN7 postcode area.

83% of advertising 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 2LP
Application type
Application to Display Adverts
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Lewes Town Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
11 December 2018
Last date for comments
29 January 2019
Target decision date
5 February 2019

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Appeal

Appeal status
Appeal determined
Appeal result
Appeal Allowed

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-07453504
Documents
8
Constraints
39

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: 6, Eastgate StreetOn or next to this site
  • National park: South Downs
  • Brownfield land register: Eastgate Wharf, Lewes (former Wenban Smith Site and current NCP Car Park)Register site at or near this address · +3 more

Possibly incomplete for this council: Article 4 directions and tree preservation orders.

Also checked, none recorded (18)

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 and heritage coasts.

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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© 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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