Land East of Heath Place Bersted PO22 9SL Data via plota.co.uk

BE/143/25/OUT Refused

Proposal

Outline application with details of access, landscaping, layout, and scale (appearance is reserved) for the erection of a 3-storey building comprising of under-croft car parking and bicycle store, 2 No. floors of 4 No. self-contained flats on each (8 No flats in total) with pedestrian access formed onto Ash Grove. Data via plota.co.uk

View original council record ↗Last checked

Application progress

✓
Received
16 Dec 2025
✓
Validated
18 Dec 2025
✗
Refused
12 Feb 2026
Appeal
Not lodged

Refused on 12 Feb 2026 · Last checked 2 Oct 2026

Site constraints 5

Flood zone 2, rivers and sea
Medium chance: between a 1 in 100 and 1 in 1,000 annual chance from rivers, or 1 in 200 to 1 in 1,000 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 ↗
Local nature reserve about 196 m away: The Brooks
Work nearby can need a habitats assessment.
Harm to a protected site is only accepted where there is no alternative and an overriding public interest.
Also on the record
Radon affected area, class 2; Inside the Bognor Regis built-up area; Natural England's Provisional ALC map (1:250,000, 1970s) had this area as grade 3, but it predates the buildings here and the current map does not class it as farmland.
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 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.

Work with planning data?

Every application in Arun - and every UK council - as a live feed, an API, or a bulk CSV export.

About Plota's data service

Important details

Council
Arun
Postcode
PO22 9SL
Received
16 Dec 2025
Validated
18 Dec 2025
Parish
Bersted
Case officer
Show
Target decision
12 Feb 2026
Decision
Refused
Decision date
12 Feb 2026
Applicant
Show
Agent
Darryl Howells Planning Consultantcy

How this decision compares

Decided in 56 days from validation, 5 days faster than Arun's median of 61 for full applications. Refused, as 14% of full applications here are.

34%decided within 8 weeks
86%approved
340decided in the last year

Plota live figures for full applications decided by Arun in the last twelve months, from validation. Arun decision record →

Consultation & key dates

Comments by
29 Jan 2026
Arun
Planning Authority Score
8.9/10
Excellent
#4 of 296 councils
Relevant to this application:
Householder decisions

Arun is one of the fastest councils in England for householder decisions, ranking #2 out of 296. Only 12% of applications have the time limit extended, well below the 41% national average - the council usually decides on time. Householder applications are slightly more likely to be approved here (94%) than the national average (90%).

Among the fastest councils in England
for householder decisions
These figures are council-wide context, not a prediction for this application. View full council performance
Arun decision statistics
Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026
86%
Overall approval rate
Below avg (87%) #187 of 296
94%
Householder approved
Above avg (90%) #97 of 296
99%
Decided in 8 weeks
Above avg (63%) #2 of 296
12%
Extended time limit
Below avg (41%) #4 of 296
45%
Minor dwellings approved
66 decided (1-9 homes)
75%
Major dwellings approved
20 decided (10+ homes)
86%
Change of use approved
35 decided
794
Total decisions
113 refused in the year to March 2026