63 High Street Lewes East Sussex BN7 1XQ
Withdrawn on 1 June 2026
Council decision: Application WithdrawnDelegated (officer decision)
Proposal
Conversion of existing building from Class E(c)(i) (Financial Services) to a mixed-use development consisting of ground & basement floor Class E office space and a self-contained three-bedroom dwelling (Class C3)
- Received
- 27 October 2025
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- South Downs
- Ward
- Lewes Priory Ward
- Agent
- Elemental Architecture & Design
- ReceivedReceived27 Oct
- ValidatedValidated27 Oct
- Consult.Consultation17 Dec
- TargetTarget Date22 Dec
- DecidedDecided1 Jun
Decided in 217 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is a full planning application at 63 High Street Lewes East Sussex BN7 1XQ. South Downs has handled 5,093 applications of this type. It was withdrawn 217 days after it was submitted, before a decision was made. The site is in the Lewes conservation area, with 20 listed buildings nearby. There have been 4 other applications 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.
88% of full 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 1XQ
- Application type
- Full Application
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Lewes Town Council
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 27 October 2025
- Last date for comments
- 17 December 2025
- Target decision date
- 22 December 2025
Applicant and agent
- Agent
- Elemental Architecture & Design
- Architect profile
- ELEMENTAL ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN LTD
- Agent address
- 27 New Steine Brighton BN2 1PD
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Additional information
- Planning Portal ID
- PP-14428613
- Documents
- 20
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Conservation area: Lewes
- 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, 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.
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Planning history at this site
3 other applications at this property, newest first.
- 20261 Jul
Discharge of Conditions 4 (Privacy Shutters), 7 (Waste Management), 9 (Ecosystem Services) and 12…
PendingDischarge of conditionsSDNP/26/02572/DCOND - 202626 Mar
Conversion of existing building from Class E(c)(i) (Financial Services) to a self-contained three-bedroom…
ApprovedFull ApplicationSDNP/26/01197/FUL - 20142 Dec
Remove and replace existing external ATM and all associated works
ApprovedFull ApplicationSDNP/14/06211/FUL
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