Station House A286 The Grinch To Town Lane West Dean West Sussex PO18 0RX Data via plota.co.uk

SDNP/26/03029/LIS - Listed Building Application in Progress
Change of useListed buildingsCommercial premises

Proposal

Change of use of two dwellinghouses to Class E(g)(i) Offices with ancillary storage and workshop Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

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Received
4 Aug 2026
Decision
Expected by 29 Sept 2026

Under consideration

No decision has been issued yet. Plota predicted a decision around 9 Oct 2026; it is now day 66.

Documents 2

Application forms 1

PDF APPLICATION FORM Application Form · 3 Aug 2026 View ↗

Other documents 1

PDF SDNPA CALL-IN DIRECTION Officer Correspondence · 5 Aug 2026 View ↗

All documents on the council site ↗

Site constraints 9

Grade II listed: Former Singleton Railway Station
List entry 1460651 · 10 m away
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.
Historic England ↗
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 3b
Not 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 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.
Also on the record
Radon affected area, class 2; Nature improvement area: South Downs Way Ahead; Registered park or garden 223 m away: West Dean; Priority habitat 15 m away: Deciduous woodland.
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 area143 m² (1,539 sq ft)
Energy ratingE (53 out of 100), could reach D
PropertySemi-detached house
Built1900
HeatingCommunity scheme
WallsAverage thermal transmittance 1.78 W/m²K

From the energy performance certificate lodged in May 2020, the latest held for this property. The building may have changed since. View the certificate

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Important details

Council
South Downs
Application type
Listed Building
Postcode
PO18 0RX
Received
4 Aug 2026
Validated
4 Aug 2026
Ward
Goodwood Ward CH
Parish
West Dean Parish Council
Case officer
Show
Target decision
29 Sept 2026
Decision level
SDNPA Delegated Decision
Applicant
Show
Agent
Genesis Town Planning

Decision outlook

Day 66, past the statutory target. 81% of changes of use in South Downs are decided within thirteen weeks, which runs to 3 Nov 2026; extensions of time are common, and the council need not decide on the day. Last seen undecided on 7 Oct 2026.

Day 6610 days past the 56-day target
59%decided within 8 weeks
83%approved
68decided in the last year

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

Public comments

No public comments yet.

Last counted 7 Oct 2026

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Consultation & key dates

Alt. reference
PP-15130443
Planning Portal ref
PP-15130443
Statutory expiry
29 Sept 2026
Env. assessment
No

Historical activity at this location

6 nearby applications on record - archival context, not part of the live application.

Within ~100m

Nearby activity

2025 Withdrawn
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Notification of intention to remove 30m of box hedge and replace with 30m of native hedgi…
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2020 Withdrawn
West Dean Gardens West Dean Chichester West Sussex PO18 0RX
Class DA takeaway.
20/01443/PDDA
2020 Withdrawn
West Dean Gardens West Dean Chichester West Sussex PO18 0RX
Class DA takeaway.
20/01443/PDDA
2020 Approved
132 A286 The Grinch to Town Lane West Dean Chichester West Sussex PO18 0RX
Notification of intention to fell 1 no. tree (unknown species).
SDNP/20/01580/TCA
2020 Approved
165 A286 The Grinch To Town Lane West Dean PO18 0RX
Notification of intention to fell 2 no. multi-stemmed Ash trees (marked on plan as X).
SDNP/20/01624/TCA
2018 Approved
164 West Dean Chichester West Sussex PO18 0RX
Notification of intention to fell 1 no. Spruce tree (T1), 1 no. Scots Pine tree (T2) and…
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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.