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Welkin Site Carlisle Road Eastbourne

SDNP/25/03332/ADJAUTAdjoining Authority ConsultationDecided
Outline / PiP

Decided on 3 September 2025

Council decision: Adj authority consultation responseDelegated (officer decision)

Proposal

Adjoining Authority Consultation - Eastbourne Borough Council (250505) - Demolition of Welkin Laboratories, Welkin Bungalow and ancillary outbuildings. Retention and conversion of listed buildings (Trevin Towers and associated stables/motor house) to residential; partial retention and conversion of Welkin House and Bishopsbourne to residential; and residential development of the remainder of the site to provide a total of 56 dwellings, with access, parking and landscaping

Received
12 August 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Council
South Downs
Ward
Midhurst Ward CH
  1. Received12 Aug
  2. Validated12 Aug
  3. Consult.
  4. Target2 Sep
  5. Decided3 Sep

Decided in 22 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for demolition at Welkin Site Carlisle Road Eastbourne. South Downs has handled 1,978 applications of this type. The site is in the Town Centre and Seafront conservation area, with 4 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 147 applications across Midhurst Ward CH.

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

Application type
Adjoining Authority Consultation
Scale / size
Large
Number of dwellings
56
Parish
Midhurst Town Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
12 August 2025
Target decision date
2 September 2025

Planning decision

Statutory period
21 days

Additional information

Documents
2

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

  • Conservation area: Town Centre and Seafront
  • 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, 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 parks, 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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