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DM/25/2640 - Reserved Matters Application Approved

Proposal

Reserved matters application to consider access, appearance, landscaping, layout and scale pursuant to application (original reference ) for parcel P1.2 comprising of the construction of a primary school with nursery and special support centre, car parking, multi-use games area, playing fields, landscaping and associated infrastructure. Data via plota.co.uk

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View original council record ↗Last checked 10 Oct 2026, 14:51

Application progress

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Received

16 Oct 2025

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Approved

29 May 2026

Approved on 29 May 2026 · District Committee · Last checked 10 Oct 2026

Planning committee

Decided by Mid Sussex District Planning Committee on 28 May 2026.

Approved unanimously

As officers recommended.

Officers advised approval because the school was needed, designed to a high standard and would have acceptable transport, amenity and environmental effects.
The town council supported approval but asked for better drop-off, parking and travel-plan arrangements; consultees raised no objections.
Members unanimously approved the recommendation, with 12 votes in favour, subject to conditions and the agenda-update amendments.

Read how the committee decided The proposal, site history, officers’ assessment, consultation responses, committee vote and decision. Includes the meeting recording, from 0:47:46 where this application was taken

Source: Plota analysis of Mid Sussex's committee minutes of 28 May 2026.

Documents

View the documents on the council's website ↗

Site constraints 2

1 listed building within 150 m of the postcode pin

Nearest: The Sportsman Inn, Grade II, about 29 m from the postcode pin

The site itself is not listed. 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 ↗

Agricultural land, grade 3b

Not 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) agrees.

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.

Not affected

Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · Not green belt · No scheduled monument at the site

Checked on 11 October 2026. The pin for this application is the centre of its postcode rather than the building, so distances to nearby designations are measured from the postcode and can be out by the width of the postcode area. 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.

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Important details

Council: Mid Sussex
Application type: Reserved Matters Application
Received: 16 Oct 2025
Validated: 16 Oct 2025
Ward: Burgess Hill - Leylands
Parish: Burgess Hill
Case officer: Show
Target decision: 15 Jan 2026
Decision: Permission
Decision date: 29 May 2026
Decision level: District Committee
Applicant: Show
Agent: Show

How this decision compares

Decided in 225 days from validation, 133 days slower than Mid Sussex's median of 92 for reserved matters. Approved, as 96% of reserved matters here are.

This one225d

Council92d

UK92d

27%decided within 8 weeks

96%approved

12%go to committee

Plota live figures for reserved matters decided across the UK in the last twelve months, from validation; too few recent reserved matters in Mid Sussex to go on. Mid Sussex decision record →

Public comments

1comment received

1 objecting

7 neighbours consulted · Last counted 10 Oct 2026

Read the comments on the council site ↗

Consultation & key dates

Alt. reference: PP-14359471
Planning Portal ref: PP-14359471
Comments by: 21 Nov 2025
Committee: 28 May 2026
Statutory expiry: 15 Jan 2026
Env. assessment: No

Mid Sussex

Planning Authority Score

4.8/10

Below average

#161 of 296 councils

Relevant to this application:

Major dwellings

Mid Sussex ranks #150 out of 296 councils for householder decision speed. Householder applications are slightly more likely to be approved here (93%) than the national average (90%).

These figures are council-wide context, not a prediction for this application. View full council performance

Mid Sussex decision statistics

Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026

92%

Overall approval rate

Above avg (87%) #87 of 296

93%

Householder approved

Above avg (90%) #132 of 296

64%

Decided in 8 weeks

Above avg (63%) #150 of 296

44%

Extended time limit

Above avg (41%) #179 of 296

80%

Minor dwellings approved

83 decided (1-9 homes)

89%

Major dwellings approved

27 decided (10+ homes)

82%

Change of use approved

33 decided

1,115

Total decisions

93 refused in the year to March 2026