1 Collyers Cottages Surrey Road Lickfold Lurgashall West Sussex GU28 9DT Data via plota.co.uk

SDNP/26/02662/LDP - Lawful Development Cert (Proposed) Approved

Proposal

To remove the existing studio and greenhouse and erect a detached outbuilding for use as a studio and greenhouse within the rear garden. Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

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Received
7 Jul 2026
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Approved
24 Aug 2026

Approved on 24 Aug 2026 · LA Delegated Decision · Last checked 24 Aug 2026

Site constraints 7

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.
Agricultural land, grade 4
Poor quality farmland, not best and most versatile. 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 3. 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.
Public bridleway 26 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.
SSSI 164 m away: Northpark Copse to Snapelands Copse SSSI
Natural England may need consulting, depending on what is proposed.
Sites of special scientific interest are the best wildlife and geological sites in the country. Development likely to harm one is rarely permitted.
Also on the record
Priority habitat 24 m away: Deciduous woodland; Open access land 24 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 listed building at the site

Checked on 6 October 2026. Historic England, the Environment Agency, Natural England 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.

Sales history 1

Last sold for £276,000 in July 2008. Semi-detached house, freehold.

29 July 2008£276,000

Sale prices from HM Land Registry's price paid record, matched to this application by its address.

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Important details

Application type
Lawful Development Cert (Proposed)
Postcode
GU28 9DT
Received
7 Jul 2026
Validated
7 Jul 2026
Ward
Easebourne Ward CH
Parish
Lodsworth Parish Council
Case officer
Show
Target decision
1 Sept 2026
Decision
Approved
Decision date
24 Aug 2026
Decision level
LA Delegated Decision
Applicant
Show
Agent
Architectural & Associated Services

How this decision compares

Decided in 48 days from validation, 8 days faster than South Downs's median of 56 for extensions. Approved, as 92% of extensions here are.

50%decided within 8 weeks
92%approved
657decided in the last year

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

Public comments

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Last counted 24 Aug 2026

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Consultation & key dates

Alt. reference
PP-15063070
Planning Portal ref
PP-15063070
Statutory expiry
1 Sept 2026
Env. assessment
No

Sale prices: Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Freehold boundary: © Crown copyright and database rights 2026, HM Land Registry. Polygons © Crown copyright and database rights 2026 Ordnance Survey 100026316. Conditions of use