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Sewage Treatment Works Spatham Lane Westmeston Hassocks East Sussex BN6 8XH

SDNP/24/00105/SCREENScreening OpinionApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 29 January 2024

Council decision: EIA Not RequiredDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

EIA Screening Request regarding proposals to improve Ditchling Wastewater Treatment Works

Received
22 December 2023
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Council
South Downs
Ward
Ditchling And Westmeston Ward
  1. Received22 Dec
  2. Validated15 Jan
  3. Consult.15 Feb
  4. Target5 Feb
  5. Decided29 Jan

Decided in 14 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application at Sewage Treatment Works Spatham Lane Westmeston Hassocks East Sussex BN6 8XH. South Downs has handled 1,978 applications of this type. This one was decided in 38 days, 3 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 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
Screening Opinion
Scale / size
Medium
Parish
Ditchling Parish Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
15 January 2024
Last date for comments
15 February 2024
Target decision date
5 February 2024

Planning decision

Statutory period
21 days

Additional information

Documents
13
Constraints
12

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • 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.

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