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SDNP/26/03715/ADJAUT - Adjoining Authority Consultation Application in Progress

Proposal

Adjoining Authoirty Consultation - - Replacement of existing Portacabin with new single storey modular cabin for use as an ancillary building to the existing site. Excavate grounds of mixed material to create trench for new power, water and drainage. Install drainage pipework and associated items, including connection to existing, new or planned network. Install electrical meters, transformers and associated items as required. Excavations to be finished in concrete to match existing hardstand. New planters, wildlife houses and greenspace. Is in CIL Zone 3 (Zero Rated) as other development. Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

✓
Received
18 Sept 2026
Decision
Expected by 9 Oct 2026

Under consideration

No decision has been issued yet. A decision is expected by 9 Oct 2026.

Site constraints 6

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 ↗
Agricultural land, grade 2
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), 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.
National infrastructure project about 917 m away: Rampion 2 Offshore Wind Farm
The site is about 917 m from the project boundary. Generating station, decided. The project page says whether consent was granted.
Nationally significant infrastructure projects (power stations, electricity lines, pipelines, major roads and railways, harbours, airports and reservoirs) are consented by a Secretary of State under the Planning Act 2008, after an examination by the Planning Inspectorate, rather than by the council. The boundary is the one the Inspectorate consults on and can change as the scheme does. Projects are shown within 2 km of the site.
Planning Inspectorate project page ↗
Also on the record
Radon affected area, class 3; 1 listed building within 150 m of the postcode pin.
Not affected
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, the Planning Inspectorate, 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.

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Important details

Application type
Adjoining Authority Consultation
Postcode
BN18 0BH
Received
18 Sept 2026
Validated
18 Sept 2026
Ward
Midhurst Ward CH
Parish
Midhurst Town Council
Case officer
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Target decision
9 Oct 2026
Decision level
SDNPA Delegated Decision
Applicant
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Public comments

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Last counted 7 Oct 2026

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Consultation & key dates

Statutory expiry
9 Oct 2026
Env. assessment
No