Downlands The Street Poynings West Sussex BN45 7AQ Data via plota.co.uk

SDNP/26/01866/LDP - Lawful Development Cert (Proposed) Approved

Proposal

Installation of 11no roof mounted solar panels to south facing front roof slope Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

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Received
13 May 2026
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Approved
6 Jul 2026

Approved on 6 Jul 2026 · SDNPA Delegated Decision · Last checked 11 Jul 2026

Site constraints 9

4 listed buildings within 150 m of the postcode pin
Nearest: Numbers 1 and 2 Oak Cottages, Grade II, about 16 m from the postcode pin · 4 Grade II
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.
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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.
Poynings conservation area
Demolition needs planning permission and permitted development is restricted.
The council must give weight to preserving or enhancing the area's character and appearance. Not every council has published its boundaries as open data.
Public footpath about 11 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.
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) 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.
Habitat network: Network Enhancement Zone 1
Where habitat is joined up enough to work as a network. Context, not a constraint on its own.
Radon affected area, class 5
An estimated 10 to 30% of homes reach the radon action level. Indicative for the 1 km square, which takes the highest class found in it; a radon test gives the answer for a building.
From the British Geological Survey and UK Health Security Agency indicative atlas. Under building regulations, as the BRE guide BR 211 (2023) sets out, new buildings and extensions need basic radon protection from class 3 in England and Wales and from class 2 in Scotland, and full protection from class 5. The class at the site itself, from the detailed BGS map, decides which.
UKHSA radon ↗
Also on the record
SSSI about 272 m away: Beeding Hill to Newtimber Hill SSSI; Nature improvement area: South Downs Way Ahead.
Not affected
Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · Not green belt · No scheduled monument at the site

Checked on 6 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, 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.

Sales history 1

Last sold for £450,000 in March 2005. Detached house, freehold.

24 March 2005£450,000

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
BN45 7AQ
Received
13 May 2026
Validated
13 May 2026
Ward
Downland Parishes Ward
Parish
Poynings Parish Council
Case officer
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Target decision
8 Jul 2026
Decision
Approved
Decision date
6 Jul 2026
Decision level
SDNPA Delegated Decision
Applicant
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Agent
DW Renewable Energy Ltd

How this decision compares

Decided in 54 days from validation, about the council's usual 55 days. Approved, as 80% of lawful development certificates here are.

59%decided within 8 weeks
80%approved
115decided in the last year

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

Consultation & key dates

Alt. reference
PP-14927842
Planning Portal ref
PP-14927842
Statutory expiry
8 Jul 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.