Mistila, Holiday Lets Whiteway Alfriston East Sussex BN26 5TP Data via plota.co.uk

SDNP/26/02479/FUL - Full Application Application in Progress

Proposal

Change of use of land to rear of Mistila to site 3no. yurts, a shepherds hut and conversion of horse trailer into a sauna Data via plota.co.uk

View original council record ↗Last checked

Application progress

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Received
24 Jun 2026
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Validated
16 Jul 2026
Decision
Expected by 16 Oct 2026

Under consideration

No decision has been issued yet. Plota predicted a decision around 9 Oct 2026; it is now day 85.

Documents 21

Consultation & comments 12

PDF Objector’s name hidden Show Objection Comment · 17 Sept 2026 View ↗
PDF Objector’s name hidden Show Objection Comment · 7 Sept 2026 View ↗
PDF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH Consultation Responses · 4 Sept 2026 View ↗ PDF SDNP LANDSCAPE OFFICER Consultee Comment · 3 Sept 2026 View ↗
PDF Supporter’s name hidden Show Support Comment · 26 Aug 2026 View ↗
PDF Supporter’s name hidden Show Support Comment · 15 Aug 2026 View ↗
PDF SDNP LANDSCAPE OFFICER Consultee Comment · 11 Aug 2026 View ↗
PDF Supporter’s name hidden Show Support Comment · 6 Aug 2026 View ↗
PDF Objector’s name hidden Show Objection Comment · 5 Aug 2026 View ↗
PDF Supporter’s name hidden Show Support Comment · 4 Aug 2026 View ↗
PDF Supporter’s name hidden Show Support Comment · 29 Jul 2026 View ↗
PDF Supporter’s name hidden Show Support Comment · 28 Jul 2026 View ↗

All documents on the council site ↗

Site constraints 10

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.
Priority habitat: Deciduous woodland
A habitat of principal importance. It shapes the ecology work and the biodiversity net gain a scheme has to show.
National nature reserve 52 m away: Seven Sisters
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.
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: Other Priority Habitats - NEZ
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
Nature recovery project: Seaford to Eastbourne: Drink-in the Downs; Nature improvement area: South Downs Way Ahead; Conservation area 83 m away: Alfriston; 1 listed building within 150 m.
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.

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Important details

Application type
Full Application
Postcode
BN26 5TP
Received
24 Jun 2026
Validated
16 Jul 2026
Ward
East Dean Ward
Parish
Alfriston Parish Council
Case officer
Show
Target decision
16 Oct 2026
Decision level
SDNPA Delegated Decision
Applicant
Show
Agent
Quantity Surveyor Planning Consultant

Decision outlook

Day 85, past the statutory target. 81% of changes of use in South Downs are decided within thirteen weeks, which runs to 15 Oct 2026; extensions of time are common, and the council need not decide on the day. Last seen undecided on 7 Oct 2026.

Day 8529 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

8comments received
2 objecting6 supporting

75% support · above the UK average of 16%

Last counted 7 Oct 2026

Read the comments on the council site ↗

Consultation & key dates

Alt. reference
PP-15032080
Planning Portal ref
PP-15032080
Statutory expiry
10 Sept 2026
Env. assessment
No

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