Copyhold Copyhold Lane Fernhurst West Sussex GU27 3DZ Data via plota.co.uk

SDNP/26/02687/HOUS - Householder Pending

Proposal

Removal of tennis court and erection of a padel court. Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

Received
8 Jul 2026
Validated
1 Sept 2026
Decision
Expected by 27 Oct 2026

This application is under consideration - no decision has been issued yet. Plota predicts a decision between 26 Oct 2026 and 10 Nov 2026, from South Downs's recent commercial and major works.

Site constraints 5

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 3b
Not best and most versatile land (grades 1, 2 and 3a). Predicted from the national soil map. A site survey can differ.
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: Other Priority Habitats - NEZ
Where habitat is joined up enough to work as a network. Context, not a constraint on its own.
Also on the record
Priority habitat 12 m away: No main habitat but additional habitats present; Open access land 9 m away: Access Land - Combined Open Country, Registered Common Land and Section 16 Dedicated Land. MoD Byelaw, Section 28 Exclusions, Racecourses and Aerodromes and ECP Margin have been removed..
Not affected
Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · Not green belt · No listed building 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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Important details

Application type
Householder
Postcode
GU27 3DZ
Received
8 Jul 2026
Validated
1 Sept 2026
Ward
Fernhurst Ward CH
Parish
Fernhurst Parish Council
Case officer
Show
Target decision
27 Oct 2026
Decision level
LA Delegated Decision
Applicant
Show
Agent
Planit Consulting

Decision outlook

Day 13 of the 56-day target. South Downs usually decides commercial and major works by day 56.

Day 1343 days to the 56-day target
51%decided within 8 weeks
81%approved
76decided 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

No public comments yet.

1 neighbour consulted · Last counted 10 Sept 2026

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Consultation & key dates

Alt. reference
PP-14976304
Statutory expiry
27 Oct 2026
Env. assessment
No