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Seaford College The Drive East Lavington West Sussex GU28 0NB

SDNP/25/01941/CNDRemoval or Variation of a ConditionApproved
Discharge / amendments

Approved on 8 July 2025

Delegated (officer decision)

Proposal

8 no. new tennis courts and replacement of existing tennis courts with all-weather hockey pitch together with creation of overflow car parking and associated work. Application under Section 73 to vary Condition 4 (surface water drainage disposal) of planning permission SDNP/22/04467/FUL to allow for work to commence on the new tennis courts first and the hockey pitches to be completed at a later date, adding a further condition to reflect this.

Received
7 May 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Council
South Downs
Ward
Fittleworth Ward CH
Agent
Murray Planning Associates Ltd
  1. Received7 May
  2. Validated14 May
  3. Consult.2 Jul
  4. Target13 Aug
  5. Decided8 Jul

Decided in 55 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to vary a condition at Seaford College The Drive East Lavington West Sussex GU28 0NB. South Downs has handled 2,087 applications of this type. This one was decided in 62 days, 6 days longer than South Downs's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 65 applications across Fittleworth Ward CH. We hold 576 applications in total for the GU28 postcode area.

95% of conditions 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
GU28 0NB
Application type
Removal or Variation of a Condition
Scale / size
Medium
Parish
East Lavington Parish Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
14 May 2025
Last date for comments
2 July 2025
Target decision date
13 August 2025
Permission expires
8 July 2028

Applicant and agent

Agent
Murray Planning Associates Ltd
Agent address
Gnd Floor Office, Challenger House, Rumbolds Hill Midhurst GU29 9BY United Kingdom

Planning decision

Statutory period
91 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-13996849
Documents
17

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

  • Registered park and garden: Lavington Park
  • Heritage at Risk Register: Lavington Park
  • 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 (19)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, green belt, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, registered battlefields, 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.

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