St Peters Church The Street Firle East Sussex BN8 6LP Data via plota.co.uk

SDNP/26/04005/FUL - Full Application Application in Progress

Proposal

Erection of a single-storey building providing two self-contained units of visitor accommodation (Pilgrim's Bothy). Data via plota.co.uk

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View original council record ↗Last checked 27 Oct 2026, 06:31

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Application progress

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Received

16 Oct 2026

Decision

Expected by 11 Dec 2026

Under consideration

No decision has been issued yet. Plota predicts a decision between 11 Dec 2026 and 25 Dec 2026, from South Downs's recent commercial and major works.

Documents 2

Application forms 1

PDF CIL - FORM 1 : CIL ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Application Form · 15 Oct 2026 View ↗

Site constraints 9

Grade I listed: The Parish Church of St Peter

List entry 1043939 · 2 m away · 9 more listed buildings within 150 m (1 Grade II*, 8 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.

Show the other 9 with distances

44 mChurch Farmhouse and Barn Or Farm Building Adjoining to the West, With Flanking Walls on Each Side of TheseGrade II
74 mDovecot to the South East of Church FarmhouseGrade II
81 mFirle Place Riding School of Firle Place to West of the House the Stables of Firle Place Riding School of Firle Place to West of the HouseGrade II*
91 mBarn at Place Farm to the East of the Farmhouse and on the Other Side of the RoadGrade II
105 mBarn to the South East of Place FarmhouseGrade II
131 m4 and 5, the StreetGrade II
132 mPlace FarmhouseGrade II
142 mK6 Telephone Kiosk, the StreetGrade II
149 mFirle Post Office S C Fletcher's StoresGrade II

Historic England ↗

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.

Firle 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 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.

Registered park or garden 33 m away: Firle Place

Its setting is a consideration for work nearby.

Registered parks and gardens, battlefields, world heritage sites and protected wrecks are designated heritage assets: harm needs clear and convincing justification.

Historic England ↗

Habitat network: Network Enhancement Zone 1

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

Radon affected area, class 5

An estimated 10 to 30% of homes reach the radon action level. Indicative for the 1 km square, which takes the highest class found in it; a radon test gives the answer for a building.

From the British Geological Survey and UK Health Security Agency indicative atlas. Under building regulations, as the BRE guide BR 211 (2023) sets out, new buildings and extensions need basic radon protection from class 3 in England and Wales and from class 2 in Scotland, and full protection from class 5. The class at the site itself, from the detailed BGS map, decides which.

UKHSA radon ↗

Also on the record

Heritage at risk 1 m away: Parish Church of St Peter; Nature recovery project: Seaford to Eastbourne: Drink-in the Downs.

Not affected

Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · Not green belt · No scheduled monument at the site

Checked on 26 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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