Little Lancing Nursery 4 Coombes Road Lancing West Sussex BN15 0RJ Data via plota.co.uk

SDNP/25/04094/FUL - Full Application Approved

Proposal

Change of use from residential to education, including erection of covered walkway, bin store, WC, play equipment and landscaping works Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

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Received
13 Oct 2025
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Approved
26 Feb 2026

Approved on 26 Feb 2026 · SDNPA Delegated Decision · Last checked 11 Oct 2026

Associated applications 2

Site constraints 9

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 ↗
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.
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
National infrastructure project 1445 m away: Rampion Offshore Wind Farm; SSSI 438 m away: Adur Estuary SSSI; Inside the Lancing and Sompting built-up area; Priority habitat 16 m away: Coastal and floodplain grazing marsh; 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 listed building at the site · No scheduled monument at the site

Checked on 11 October 2026. Historic England, the Environment Agency, Natural England, the Planning Inspectorate, 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
BN15 0RJ
Received
13 Oct 2025
Validated
13 Oct 2025
Ward
Manor Ward
Parish
Lancing Parish Council
Case officer
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Target decision
27 Feb 2026
Decision
Approved
Decision date
26 Feb 2026
Decision level
SDNPA Delegated Decision
Applicant
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Agent
Rural Solutions Limited
Freehold owner
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How this decision compares

Decided in 136 days from validation, 61 days slower than South Downs's median of 75 for full applications. Approved, as 88% of full applications here are.

35%decided within 8 weeks
88%approved
286decided in the last year

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

Public comments

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5 neighbours consulted · Last counted 11 Oct 2026

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Consultation & key dates

Alt. reference
PP-14227918
Planning Portal ref
PP-14227918
Statutory expiry
8 Dec 2025
Env. assessment
No

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Freehold owner: Information produced by HM Land Registry. © Crown copyright 2026. Source: HM Land Registry, UK and overseas companies that own property in England and Wales, September 2026 release.