Southwood Farm B2178 Southbrook Road To Moutheys Lane East Ashling West Sussex PO18 9BA Data via plota.co.uk

SDNP/26/03806/APNB - Agricultural Prior Notification Building Approved

Proposal

Demolition of existing portal framed agricultural buildings and erection of replacement portal framed buildings. Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

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Received

2 Oct 2026

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Approved

15 Oct 2026

Approved on 15 Oct 2026 · LA Delegated Decision · Last checked 16 Oct 2026

Documents 3

Decision & officer reports 2

PDF DECISION Decision · 15 Oct 2026 View ↗ PDF DELEGATED REPORT Report · 15 Oct 2026 View ↗

Application forms 1

PDF APPLICATION FORM Application Form · 1 Oct 2026 View ↗

All documents on the council site ↗

Site constraints 5

Nutrient neutrality catchment: Solent: Includes Chichester and Langstone Harbours SPA/Ramsar, Solent and Southampton Water SPA/Ramsar, Solent Maritime SAC, Portsmouth Harbour SPA/Ramsar

New homes and overnight accommodation must show nutrient neutrality before approval.

Natural England advice: extra wastewater in these catchments harms protected habitats, so schemes must offset their nutrient load, usually through credits.

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). 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 2

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

Also on the record

Radon affected area, class 2.

Not affected

Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · Not green belt · No listed building at the site

Checked on 11 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.

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Important details

Council: South Downs
Application type: Agricultural Prior Notification Building
Postcode: PO18 9BA
Received: 2 Oct 2026
Validated: 2 Oct 2026
Ward: Lavant Ward CH
Parish: Funtington Parish Council
Case officer: Show
Target decision: 29 Oct 2026
Decision: Raise No Objection
Decision date: 15 Oct 2026
Decision level: LA Delegated Decision
Applicant: Show
Agent: Complete Land Management

How this decision compares

Decided in 13 days from validation, 12 days faster than South Downs's median of 25 for agricultural works. Approved, as 79% of agricultural works here are.

This one13d

Council25d

UK46d

85%decided within 8 weeks

79%approved

57decided in the last year

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