Church House The Street Firle East Sussex BN8 6LP Data via plota.co.uk

SDNP/26/01201/LIS - Listed Building Approved

Proposal

Reconstruction of collapsed wall Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

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Received
26 Mar 2026
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Approved
2 Jun 2026

Approved on 2 Jun 2026 · LA Delegated Decision · Last checked 6 Jul 2026

Associated applications 2

Site constraints 9

Grade II listed: Church Farmhouse and Barn Or Farm Building Adjoining to the West, With Flanking Walls on Each Side of These
List entry 1217368 · 5 m away · 8 more listed buildings within 150 m (1 Grade I, 1 Grade II*, 6 Grade II)
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.
Firle 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.
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.
Registered park or garden 27 m away: Firle Place
Its setting is a consideration for work nearby.
Registered parks and gardens, battlefields, world heritage sites and protected wrecks are designated heritage assets: harm needs clear and convincing justification.
Historic England ↗
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
Nature recovery project: Seaford to Eastbourne: Drink-in the Downs; Heritage at risk 39 m away: Parish Church of St Peter.
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, 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.

Building

Floor area153 m² (1,647 sq ft)
Energy ratingE (44 out of 100), could reach C
PropertyDetached house, 8 habitable rooms
Built1900 to 1929
HeatingBoiler and radiators, oil
WallsSolid brick, as built, no insulation (assumed)

From the energy performance certificate lodged in August 2020, the latest held for this property. The building may have changed since. View the certificate

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Important details

Application type
Listed Building
Postcode
BN8 6LP
Received
26 Mar 2026
Validated
26 Mar 2026
Ward
Ouse Valley And Ringmer Ward
Parish
Firle Parish Council
Case officer
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Target decision
21 May 2026
Decision
Approved
Decision date
2 Jun 2026
Decision level
LA Delegated Decision
Applicant
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Agent
Richardson Architecture Ltd

How this decision compares

Decided in 68 days from validation, 9 days slower than South Downs's median of 59 for demolitions. Approved, as 89% of demolitions here are.

48%decided within 8 weeks
89%approved
120decided in the last year

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

Consultation & key dates

Alt. reference
PP-14809190
Planning Portal ref
PP-14809190
Statutory expiry
21 May 2026
Env. assessment
No

Energy performance: Energy performance certificates from the Energy Performance of Buildings Register, Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. © Crown copyright 2026.