Southdown Sports Club Cockshut Road Lewes East Sussex BN7 3PR Data via plota.co.uk

Pending SDNP/26/03435/FUL

Commercial & major works

Council

South Downs

Date received

3 Sept 2026

Date validated

3 Sept 2026

Postcode

BN7 3PR

Description

Erection of 12 floodlights to existing tennis courts. Data via plota.co.uk

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Last checked 13 Sept 2026, 06:31

Decision outlook

Plota predicts a decision between 28 Oct 2026 and 12 Nov 2026, from South Downs's recent commercial and major works.

Day 11 of the 56-day target. South Downs usually decides commercial and major works by day 56.

prediction

Day 1145 days to the 56-day target

51%decided within 8 weeks

81%approved

76decided 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 →

Site constraints 9

Flood zone 3, rivers and sea

High chance: a 1 in 100 or greater annual chance from rivers, or 1 in 200 from the sea. Any development here needs a flood risk assessment. Defences are not counted.

The Environment Agency flood map for planning. Homes in zone 3 must also pass the sequential test. Surface water flooding is a separate map.

Flood map ↗

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.

Lewes 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.

Scheduled monument 76 m away: Priory of St Pancras

Its setting is a consideration for work nearby.

Nationally important archaeology protected by the Secretary of State. Work that affects the monument or its setting is rarely permitted.

Historic England ↗

Habitat network: Network Enhancement Zone 2

Where habitat is joined up enough to work as a network. Context, not a constraint on its own.

SSSI 100 m away: Lewes Brooks 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

1 listed building within 150 m; Inside the Lewes built-up area; the 1970s provisional farmland map had this area as grade 4, but it predates the buildings here and the current map does not class it as farmland.

Not affected

Not green belt

Checked on 11 September 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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