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Hill Ash Farm Hill Ash Lane West Harting West Sussex GU31 5NY

SDNP/24/02403/LDELawful Development Cert (Existing)Approved
Lawful development certificate

Approved on 19 August 2024

Delegated (officer decision)

Proposal

Certificate of Lawfulness to confirm lawful implementation of Planning Permission reference SDNP/21/02590/FUL.

Received
12 June 2024
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Council
South Downs
Ward
Harting Ward CH
Agent
Planit Consulting
  1. Received12 Jun
  2. Validated10 Jul
  3. Consult.13 Aug
  4. Target21 Aug
  5. Decided19 Aug

Decided in 40 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at Hill Ash Farm Hill Ash Lane West Harting West Sussex GU31 5NY. South Downs has handled 551 applications of this type. This one was decided in 68 days, 12 days longer than South Downs's typical decision time. The site is in 3 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 49 applications across Harting Ward CH. We hold 315 applications in total for the GU31 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
GU31 5NY
Application type
Lawful Development Cert (Existing)
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Harting Parish Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
10 July 2024
Last date for comments
13 August 2024
Target decision date
21 August 2024
Permission expires
19 August 2027

Applicant and agent

Agent
Planit Consulting
Architect profile
PLANIT CONSULTANTS LIMITED
Agent address
3 Innovation Place Douglas Drive Godalming GU7 1JX

Planning decision

Statutory period
42 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-13144626
Documents
15

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.

© 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.

Source: South Downs

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