56 High Street Lewes BN7 1XE
Approved on 17 February 2020
Delegated (officer decision)
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Proposal
First floor Unit with NO access to ground floor/rear garden at the back of the property. The entire Ground floor will be Financial use
- Received
- 20 January 2020
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- South Downs
- Ward
- Lewes Priory Ward
- Agent
- Liam Russell Architects Ltd
- ReceivedReceived20 Jan
- ValidatedValidated20 Jan
- Consult.Consultation
- TargetTarget Date17 Feb
- DecidedDecided17 Feb
Decided in 28 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is an application to amend a permission at 56 High Street Lewes BN7 1XE. South Downs has handled 551 applications of this type. This one was decided in 28 days, 4 weeks quicker than South Downs's typical decision time. The site is in the Lewes conservation area, with 20 listed buildings nearby. There has been 1 other application 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.
90% of amendment 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 1XE
- Application type
- Non Material Amendment
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Lewes Town Council
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 20 January 2020
- Target decision date
- 17 February 2020
- Permission expires
- 17 February 2023
Applicant and agent
- Agent
- Liam Russell Architects Ltd
- Agent address
- 24 Windlesham Road Brighton BN1 3AG
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 28 days
Additional information
- Planning Portal ID
- PP-08433110
- Documents
- 7
- Constraints
- 19
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Conservation area: Lewes
- National park: South Downs
- Brownfield land register: White Hart Hotel, 55 High Street, Lewes, BN7 1XERegister site at or near this address
- Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
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.
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Planning history at this site
1 other application at this property, newest first.
Source: South Downs
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