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Hill Bottom Lodge Hill Lane Ditchling East Sussex BN6 8SP

SDNP/25/04698/NMANon Material AmendmentApproved
Discharge / amendments

Approved on 5 March 2026

Delegated (officer decision)

Site boundary (council red line)

Proposal

Non-material Amendment to Planning Approval SDNP/24/00194/HOUS to include adding 100mm of external wall insulation to rendered facade

Received
25 November 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Council
South Downs
Ward
Ditchling And Westmeston Ward
Agent
JBA Ltd
  1. Received25 Nov
  2. Validated16 Dec
  3. Consult.
  4. Target13 Jan
  5. Decided5 Mar

Decided in 79 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at Hill Bottom Lodge Hill Lane Ditchling East Sussex BN6 8SP. South Downs has handled 551 applications of this type. This one was decided in 100 days, 6 weeks longer than South Downs's typical decision time. The site is in 1 listed building nearby. There have been 2 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 55 applications across Ditchling And Westmeston Ward. We hold 1,707 applications in total for the BN6 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
BN6 8SP
Application type
Non Material Amendment
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Ditchling Parish Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
16 December 2025
Target decision date
13 January 2026
Permission expires
5 March 2029

Applicant and agent

Agent
JBA Ltd
Agent address
John Brown Architecture The Bricks Manor Farm Barns Donnington Chichester PO20 7PL

Planning decision

Statutory period
28 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14497685
Documents
5

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

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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