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Barn at Keyfox Farm North Side of The A272 Balls Cross Petworth West Sussex GU28 9NR

SDNP/19/03885/PREPre-Application AdviceApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 18 September 2019

Council decision: Pre Application Advice CompleteDelegated (officer decision)

Proposal

Category B1 conversion of barn to training facility, biodiversity study project and outdoor showroom for high value wildlife habitats. Creation of work share allotment garden for fruit and vegetable growing, ponds, wildlife meadow, tree and hedge planting, marshy grassland and fruiting shrub habitat.

Received
7 August 2019
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Council
South Downs
Ward
Petworth Ward CH
  1. Received7 Aug
  2. Validated15 Aug
  3. Consult.11 Sep
  4. Target12 Sep
  5. Decided18 Sep

Decided in 34 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application at Barn at Keyfox Farm North Side of The A272 Balls Cross Petworth West Sussex GU28 9NR. South Downs has handled 1,978 applications of this type. This one was decided in 42 days, 2 weeks quicker than South Downs's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 30 applications across Petworth Ward CH. We hold 576 applications in total for the GU28 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
GU28 9NR
Application type
Pre-Application Advice
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Petworth Town Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
15 August 2019
Last date for comments
11 September 2019
Target decision date
12 September 2019
Decision issued
20 September 2019
Permission expires
20 September 2024

Planning decision

Statutory period
28 days

Additional information

Documents
6
Constraints
10

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

  • 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 (21)

flood storage areas, conservation 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.

Source: South Downs

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