Stoneywish Country Park Spatham Lane Westmeston East Sussex BN6 8XH

SDNP/20/04617/PREPre-Application AdviceApproved

Outline / PiP

Approved on 19 April 2021

Council decision: Pre Application Advice CompleteDelegated (officer decision)

Proposal

Erection of a rural workers dwelling

Received: 28 September 2020
Decision level: Delegated (officer decision)
Council: South Downs
Ward: Ditchling And Westmeston Ward

ReceivedReceived28 Sep
ValidatedValidated21 Oct
Consult.Consultation
TargetTarget Date25 Nov
DecidedDecided19 Apr

Decided in 180 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application at Stoneywish Country Park Spatham Lane Westmeston East Sussex BN6 8XH. South Downs has handled 1,978 applications of this type. This one was decided in 203 days, 21 weeks longer than South Downs's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 56 applications across Ditchling And Westmeston Ward. We hold 1,705 applications in total for the BN6 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: BN6 8XH
Application type: Pre-Application Advice
Scale / size: Small
Parish: Ditchling Parish Council

Planning application dates

Date validated: 21 October 2020
Target decision date: 25 November 2020
Decision issued: 20 April 2021
Permission expires: 20 April 2026

Planning decision

Statutory period: 35 days

Additional information

Documents: 7
Constraints: 7

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.

Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Source: South Downs

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