The Royal Oak Inn The Street Poynings West Sussex BN45 7AQ Data via plota.co.uk

SDNP/26/00806/LDP - Lawful Development Cert (Proposed) Refused

Proposal

Lawful Development Certificate (Proposed) - Provision of a moveable structure required temporarily in connection with the public house known as The Royal Oak Inn. Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

✓
Received
27 Feb 2026
✗
Refused
29 Apr 2026
Appeal
Not lodged

Refused on 29 Apr 2026 · SDNPA Delegated Decision · Last checked 2 Aug 2026

Documents 3

Consultation & comments 1

PDF Commenter’s name hidden Show General Comment · 18 Mar 2026 View ↗

All documents on the council site ↗

Site constraints 9

Grade II listed: Numbers 1 and 2 Oak Cottages
List entry 1039925 · 16 m away · 3 more listed buildings within 150 m (3 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.
Poynings 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.
Public footpath 11 m away
Matters where it crosses or adjoins the site: obstructing a path without a diversion order is an offence, and work cannot start until the order is confirmed.
Compiled from highway authority data, not the legal definitive map. A few authorities have not published, so no path shown is not proof there is none.
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.
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
SSSI 272 m away: Beeding Hill to Newtimber Hill SSSI; Nature improvement area: South Downs Way Ahead.
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 area359 m² (3,864 sq ft)
Energy ratingE (asset rating 120)
UseC1 Hotels
HeatingHeating and Mechanical Ventilation

From the energy performance certificate lodged in August 2015, the latest held for this property. The building may have changed since. View the certificate

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Important details

Application type
Lawful Development Cert (Proposed)
Postcode
BN45 7AQ
Received
27 Feb 2026
Validated
27 Feb 2026
Ward
Downland Parishes Ward
Parish
Poynings Parish Council
Case officer
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Target decision
24 Apr 2026
Decision
Refused
Decision date
29 Apr 2026
Decision level
SDNPA Delegated Decision
Applicant
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Agent
Wilbury Planning Ltd

How this decision compares

Decided in 61 days from validation, about the council's usual 61 days. Refused, as 15% of commercial and major works here are.

47%decided within 8 weeks
85%approved
62decided in the last year

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

Public comments

1comment received
1 neutral

Last counted 2 Aug 2026

Read the comments on the council site ↗

Consultation & key dates

Alt. reference
PP-14690770
Planning Portal ref
PP-14690770
Statutory expiry
24 Apr 2026
Env. assessment
No

Freehold boundary: © Crown copyright and database rights 2026, HM Land Registry. Polygons © Crown copyright and database rights 2026 Ordnance Survey 100026316. Conditions of use

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.