Self Storage Compound New Barn Farm Common Road Funtington West Sussex PO18 9DA Data via plota.co.uk

SDNP/26/01648/FUL - Full Application Refused

Proposal

Retrospective (Section 73a) application for the formation and use of an open space compound for storage and distribution. Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

✓

Received

27 Apr 2026

✓

Validated

20 May 2026

✗

Refused

30 Jul 2026

Appeal

Not lodged

Refused on 30 Jul 2026 · LA Delegated Decision · Last checked 30 Jul 2026

Documents 8

Site constraints 4

Nutrient neutrality catchment: Solent: Includes Chichester and Langstone Harbours SPA/Ramsar, Solent and Southampton Water SPA/Ramsar, Solent Maritime SAC, Portsmouth Harbour SPA/Ramsar

New homes and overnight accommodation must show nutrient neutrality before approval.

Natural England advice: extra wastewater in these catchments harms protected habitats, so schemes must offset their nutrient load, usually through credits.

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 2

Best and most versatile land (grades 1, 2 and 3a). Predicted from the national soil map. The older provisional map, 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 Expansion Zone

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

Not affected

Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · Not green belt · No listed building at the site

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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Important details

Council: South Downs
Application type: Full Application
Postcode: PO18 9DA
Received: 27 Apr 2026
Validated: 20 May 2026
Ward: Lavant Ward CH
Parish: Funtington Parish Council
Case officer: Show
Target decision: 15 Jul 2026
Decision: Refused
Decision date: 30 Jul 2026
Decision level: LA Delegated Decision
Applicant: Show
Agent: Savills

How this decision compares

Decided in 71 days from validation, 16 days slower than South Downs's median of 55 for changes of use. Refused, as 23% of changes of use here are.

This one71d

Council55d

UK56d

65%decided within 8 weeks

77%approved

71decided in the last year

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