The Old Cottage Linch Road Woodmansgreen Linch West Sussex GU30 7NF Data via plota.co.uk

SDNP/26/00948/CND - Removal or Variation of a Condition Approved

Proposal

Demolition of existing single garage and erection of new replacement double garage. Section 73 application to vary Condition 4 (restricted garage use) from householder planning permission to allow the garage building to be used for ancillary domestic purposes (in principle only) incidental to the main dwelling. Data via plota.co.uk

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View original council record ↗Last checked 24 Aug 2026, 08:54

Application progress

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Received

9 Mar 2026

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Validated

23 Mar 2026

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Approved

13 May 2026

Approved on 13 May 2026 · LA Delegated Decision · Last checked 6 Jul 2026

Documents 4

Decision & officer reports 2

PDF DELEGATED REPORT Report · 13 May 2026 View ↗ PDF DECISION Decision · 13 May 2026 View ↗

Application forms 2

PDF APPLICATION FORM Application Form · 6 Mar 2026 View ↗ PDF CIL FORM 1: ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Application Form · 6 Mar 2026 View ↗

All documents on the council site ↗

Site constraints 4

5 listed buildings within 150 m of the postcode pin

Nearest: Woodmansgreen Farmhouse, Grade II, about 4 m from the postcode pin · 5 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.

Show all 5 with distances

4 mWoodmansgreen FarmhouseGrade II
43 mBarn at Woodmansgreen Farm to the South East of the FarmhouseGrade II
55 mChurch of St LukeGrade II
91 mThe Old CottageGrade II
109 mChurch CottageGrade II

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.

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.

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 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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