Filching Manor Jevington Road Filching Willingdon East Sussex BN26 5QA Data via plota.co.uk

SDNP/26/03476/FUL - Full Application Application in Progress

Proposal

Development of a small-scale glamping and caravan/campervan site with 2 timber-framed glamping pods and 3 electric hook-ups. Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

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Received
8 Sept 2026
Decision
Expected by 8 Dec 2026

Under consideration

No decision has been issued yet. Plota predicts a decision between 3 Nov 2026 and 17 Nov 2026, from South Downs's recent commercial and major works.

Site constraints 13

Grade II listed: Filching Manor
List entry 1284980 · 4 m away
Listed building consent is needed for work that affects the special interest of a listed building, inside or out, on top of planning permission. Setting can be a consideration for buildings nearby; there is no fixed radius.
Historic England ↗
South Downs National Park
The park authority decides applications here. Great weight to conserving the landscape; major development restricted.
Landscape, scenic beauty and wildlife carry great weight, and major development is only allowed in exceptional circumstances.
Ancient woodland 11 m away: Dean Wood
Inside the 15 m buffer standing advice asks for from the boundary.
National policy refuses development that would cause loss or deterioration of ancient woodland or ancient trees unless there are wholly exceptional reasons.
Agricultural land, grade 3a
Best and most versatile land (grades 1, 2 and 3a). Source: the Predictive Agricultural Land Classification Map (Defra and Natural England, 2025; the Welsh Government's Predictive ALC Map 2 in Wales), a model rather than a site survey. Natural England's Provisional ALC map (1:250,000, 1970s), which most planning maps still show, had this area as grade 4. The predicted grade is Defra's current estimate; only a site survey settles it.
Where development of farmland is needed, policy prefers poorer land over the best and most versatile (grades 1, 2 and 3a). Three sources: Natural England's post-1988 field surveys, which are definitive where they exist; the Defra predictive map for England (2025) and the Welsh Government predictive map, modelled from the soil map with 3a and 3b split; and the 1970s provisional map, which planners and other services still show, coarser and with grade 3 undivided. Where the provisional and predicted grades disagree, treat the predicted grade as the current estimate and expect an application to carry its own survey.
Habitat network: Network Enhancement Zone 1
Where habitat is joined up enough to work as a network. Context, not a constraint on its own.
National nature reserve 239 m away: Seven Sisters
Work nearby can need a habitats assessment.
Harm to a protected site is only accepted where there is no alternative and an overriding public interest.
Public footpath 27 m away
Matters where it crosses or adjoins the site: obstructing a path without a diversion order is an offence, and work cannot start until the order is confirmed.
Compiled from highway authority data, not the legal definitive map. A few authorities have not published, so no path shown is not proof there is none.
Also on the record
Nature recovery project: Seaford to Eastbourne: Drink-in the Downs; Radon affected area, class 4; Nature improvement area: South Downs Way Ahead; SSSI 499 m away: Willingdon Down SSSI; Priority habitat 11 m away: Deciduous woodland; Open access land 36 m away: Access Land - Combined Open Country, Registered Common Land and Section 16 Dedicated Land. MoD Byelaw, Section 28 Exclusions, Racecourses and Aerodromes and ECP Margin have been removed..
Not affected
Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · Not green belt · No scheduled monument at the site

Checked on 6 October 2026. Historic England, the Environment Agency, Natural England, the British Geological Survey and UK Health Security Agency (radon, contains BGS materials © UKRI) and council datasets, Open Government Licence. A boundary can run through a site and the council holds the definitive record: confirm with the council before relying on this.

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Important details

Application type
Full Application
Postcode
BN26 5QA
Received
8 Sept 2026
Validated
8 Sept 2026
Ward
Willingdon Ward
Parish
Willingdon and Jevington Parish Council
Case officer
Show
Target decision
8 Dec 2026
Decision level
SDNPA Delegated Decision
Applicant
Show
Agent
Asher Planning Ltd

Decision outlook

Day 31 of the 56-day target. South Downs usually decides commercial and major works by day 61.

Day 3130 days to the predicted decision (day 61)
47%decided within 8 weeks
85%approved
62decided in the last year

Plota live figures for commercial and major works decided by South Downs in the last twelve months, from validation. South Downs decision record →

Public comments

No public comments yet.

2 neighbours consulted · Last counted 30 Sept 2026

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Consultation & key dates

Alt. reference
PP-15070085
Planning Portal ref
PP-15070085
Statutory expiry
8 Dec 2026
Env. assessment
No