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Southern Water Authority Sewage Works Coxland Lane Tillington West Sussex GU28 0RB

SDNP/25/02544/SCREENScreening OpinionApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 7 August 2025

Council decision: EIA Not RequiredDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Screening opinion request under the Town and Country Planning (Environmental Impact Assessment) Regulations 2017 for upgrade to Tillington Wastewater Treatment Works.

Received
16 June 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Council
South Downs
Ward
Petworth Ward CH
  1. Received16 Jun
  2. Validated24 Jun
  3. Consult.29 Jul
  4. Target15 Jul
  5. Decided7 Aug

Decided in 44 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application at Southern Water Authority Sewage Works Coxland Lane Tillington West Sussex GU28 0RB. South Downs has handled 1,978 applications of this type. This one was decided in 52 days, 4 days quicker than South Downs's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 30 applications across Petworth Ward CH. We hold 576 applications in total for the GU28 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
GU28 0RB
Application type
Screening Opinion
Scale / size
Medium
Parish
Tillington Parish Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
24 June 2025
Last date for comments
29 July 2025
Target decision date
15 July 2025

Planning decision

Statutory period
21 days

Additional information

Documents
15

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.

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.

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Source: South Downs

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