Bramble Barn Southerham Lane Southerham East Sussex BN8 6JN Data via plota.co.uk

SDNP/26/02886/HOUS - Householder Application in Progress

Proposal

Creation of first floor space above existing timber frame garage, including extention over existing field access. Ground floor to be insulated and skeeling to be replaced with full floor to ceiling wall Data via plota.co.uk

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View original council record ↗Last checked 12 Sept 2026, 04:58

Application progress

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Received

23 Jul 2026

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Validated

18 Aug 2026

Decision

Expected by 13 Oct 2026

This application is under consideration - no decision has been issued yet. Plota predicts a decision around 13 Oct 2026, from South Downs's recent extensions.

Documents 2

Application forms 1

PDF CIL - FORM 1 : CIL ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Application Form · 22 Jul 2026 View ↗

Site constraints 6

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 3a

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 4. 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 1

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

SSSI 163 m away: Southerham Grey Pit 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

2 listed buildings within 150 m; Special area of conservation 384 m away: Lewes Downs.

Not affected

Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · Not green belt · No scheduled monument 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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