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Garden Street Auction Rooms Garden Street Lewes East Sussex BN7 1TJ

SDNP/24/02204/LDELawful Development Cert (Existing)Refused
Lawful development certificate

Refused on 2 July 2024

Delegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Implementation of planning permission SDNP/18/05444/FUL (allowed at Appeal - 3256462) for redevelopment of 'former auction rooms' into ten residential units comprising two no. two-bed split-level apartments, four no. three-bedroom houses and four no. four-bedroom houses, prior to confirmation of discharge of pre-commencement conditions

Received
30 May 2024
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Council
South Downs
Ward
Lewes Priory Ward
  1. Received30 May
  2. Validated30 May
  3. Consult.1 Jul
  4. Target25 Jul
  5. Decided2 Jul

Decided in 33 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at Garden Street Auction Rooms Garden Street Lewes East Sussex BN7 1TJ. South Downs has handled 551 applications of this type. This one was decided in 33 days, 3 weeks quicker than South Downs's typical decision time. The site is in the Lewes conservation area, with 1 listed building 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 1TJ
Application type
Lawful Development Cert (Existing)
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Lewes Town Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
30 May 2024
Last date for comments
1 July 2024
Target decision date
25 July 2024

Applicant and agent

Agent
Mohsin Cooper
Architect profile
MOHSIN COOPER LIMITED
Agent address
7 Hove Manor Parade Hove Street Hove BN3 2DF

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-13082036
Documents
15

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Flood zone 3: High probability (rivers and sea)Part of the site
  • Conservation area: Lewes
  • National park: South Downs
  • Brownfield land register: Auction Rooms, Garden Street Lewes BN7 1TJRegister site at or near this address · +1 more

Possibly incomplete for this council: Article 4 directions and tree preservation orders.

Also checked, none recorded (19)

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 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.

Data © Crown copyright and others · sources and licences

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© 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.

Associated applications

  1. 2024
    30 May

    Implementation of planning permission SDNP/18/05444/FUL

    This applicationRefusedDischarge of conditionsSDNP/24/02204/LDE
  2. 2018
    23 Oct

    Redevelopment of 'former auction rooms' into ten residential units comprising two no. two-bed split-level…

    RefusedFull ApplicationPart ofSDNP/18/05444/FUL

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