Orchard Park Farm Dial Green Lane Lurgashall West Sussex GU28 9EU Data via plota.co.uk

SDNP/26/03333/APNB - Agricultural Prior Notification Building Refused

Proposal

2 no. agricultural buildings for straw and agricultural machinery. Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

✓
Received
26 Aug 2026
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Refused
17 Sept 2026
Appeal
Not lodged

Refused on 17 Sept 2026 · LA Delegated Decision · Last checked 18 Sept 2026

Site constraints 5

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 2
Where habitat is joined up enough to work as a network. Context, not a constraint on its own.
Also on the record
5 listed buildings within 150 m; Conservation area 69 m away: Lurgashall.
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 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
Agricultural Prior Notification Building
Postcode
GU28 9EU
Received
26 Aug 2026
Validated
26 Aug 2026
Ward
Fernhurst Ward CH
Parish
Lurgashall Parish Council
Case officer
Show
Target decision
22 Sept 2026
Decision
Objection
Decision date
17 Sept 2026
Decision level
LA Delegated Decision
Applicant
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Agent
Sloane and Brown Ltd

How this decision compares

Decided in 22 days from validation, about the council's usual 25 days. Refused, as 21% of agricultural works here are.

85%decided within 8 weeks
79%approved
57decided in the last year

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

Public comments

No public comments yet.

Last counted 18 Sept 2026

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Consultation & key dates

Alt. reference
PP-15175255
Planning Portal ref
PP-15175255
Statutory expiry
22 Sept 2026
Env. assessment
No