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Place Farm North The Street Firle East Sussex BN8 6LP

SDNP/25/05123/PA3RPrior Approval CoU Agric to FlexiApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 20 February 2026

Council decision: Prior Approval GrantedDelegated (officer decision)

Site boundary (council red line)

Proposal

Change of use of agricultural barn to flexible Class E(g)(ii) and (iii) commercial Use (Office/Light industrial Workshop)

Received
29 December 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Council
South Downs
Ward
Ouse Valley And Ringmer Ward
  1. Received29 Dec
  2. Validated29 Dec
  3. Consult.10 Feb
  4. Target23 Feb
  5. Decided20 Feb

Decided in 53 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for a change of use at Place Farm North The Street Firle East Sussex BN8 6LP. South Downs has handled 1,978 applications of this type. This one was decided in 53 days, 3 days quicker than South Downs's typical decision time. The site is in the Firle conservation area, with 3 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 17 applications across Ouse Valley And Ringmer Ward. We hold 1,970 applications in total for the BN8 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
BN8 6LP
Application type
Prior Approval CoU Agric to Flexi
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Firle Parish Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
29 December 2025
Last date for comments
10 February 2026
Target decision date
23 February 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent
Strutt & Parker
Agent address
201 High Street Lewes BN7 2NR

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14551668
Documents
18

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

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.

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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