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Sunnymead Rotten Row Lewes East Sussex BN7 1TN

SDNP/19/04399/PREPre-Application AdviceApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 9 October 2019

Council decision: Pre Application Advice CompleteDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Proposed replacement gates

Received
9 September 2019
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Council
South Downs
Ward
Lewes Priory Ward
  1. Received9 Sep
  2. Validated9 Sep
  3. Consult.
  4. Target7 Oct
  5. Decided9 Oct

Decided in 30 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application at Sunnymead Rotten Row Lewes East Sussex BN7 1TN. South Downs has handled 1,978 applications of this type. This one was decided in 30 days, 4 weeks quicker than South Downs's typical decision time. The site is in the Lewes conservation area, with 3 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 4,320 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
9 September 2019
Target decision date
7 October 2019
Permission expires
9 October 2024

Planning decision

Statutory period
28 days

Additional information

Documents
3
Constraints
19

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • 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

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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.

Planning history at this site

9 other applications at this property, newest first.

  1. 2026
    20 Apr

    Cherry (T1) - Reduce crown by 1-2m from top and sides, weight reduce decaying low limb by 3m

    ApprovedTree in a Conservation AreaSDNP/26/01536/TCA
  2. 2024
    26 Sep

    T1 - Bay - remove stem growing over wall towards neighbouring property (Camoys) - reduce and reshape…

    ApprovedTree in a Conservation AreaSDNP/24/03954/TCA
  3. 2023
    22 Nov

    T1 - Apple - Fell - unstable and has several large, dead limbs

    ApprovedTree in a Conservation AreaSDNP/23/04927/TCA
  4. 2020
    15 May

    Extended driveway with new gate, alteration / modification of garage with new roof, new garden steps and…

    ApprovedHouseholderSDNP/20/01908/HOUS
  5. 2017
    26 Sep

    1 x Field Cherry (Marked A on plan) - reduction of crown to maintain shape in position

    ApprovedTree in a Conservation AreaSDNP/17/04911/TCA
  6. 2017
    17 Aug

    1x Bay - pruning of limb impacting on flint wall1x Holly - remove self sown tree currently impacting flint…

    ApprovedTree in a Conservation AreaSDNP/17/04312/TCA

Source: South Downs

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