Myrtle Cottage The Street Wilmington East Sussex BN26 5SL Data via plota.co.uk

SDNP/26/03248/LIS - Listed Building Pending

Proposal

Demolition and rebuilding of boundary wall to side and rear, and replacement of window to front elevation Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

Received
13 Aug 2026
Validated
3 Sept 2026
Decision
Expected by 29 Oct 2026

This application is under consideration - no decision has been issued yet. Plota predicts a decision around 29 Oct 2026, from South Downs's recent extensions.

Site constraints 11

Grade II listed: Lantern Cottage Myrtle Cottage
List entry 1299816 · 3 m from the pin · 17 more listed buildings within 150 m (17 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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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.
Public footpath 7 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.
Wilmington 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.
Agricultural land, grade 4
Poor quality farmland, not best and most versatile. Predicted from the national soil map. The older provisional map, which most planning maps still show, had this area as grade 2. 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 Expansion Zone
Where habitat is joined up enough to work as a network. Context, not a constraint on its own.
Also on the record
Nature recovery project: Seaford to Eastbourne: Drink-in the Downs; Nature improvement area: South Downs Way Ahead; Scheduled monument 211 m away: Wilmington Priory; SSSI 352 m away: Wilmington Downs SSSI; Priority habitat 35 m away: Traditional orchard.
Not affected
Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · Not green belt

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
Listed Building
Postcode
BN26 5SL
Received
13 Aug 2026
Validated
3 Sept 2026
Ward
East Dean Ward
Parish
Long Man Parish Council
Case officer
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Target decision
29 Oct 2026
Decision level
SDNPA Delegated Decision
Applicant
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Decision outlook

Day 11 of the 56-day target. South Downs usually decides extensions by day 56.

Day 1145 days to the 56-day target
56%decided within 8 weeks
91%approved
473decided in the last year

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

Public comments

No public comments yet.

Last counted 9 Sept 2026

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Consultation & key dates

Statutory expiry
29 Oct 2026
Env. assessment
No